D > D's Quotes

“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

“I’m too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“We are two continents  sitting in the same room we perhaps look to be  an arm's length apart but we both know  that there is much more  distance between us now”
― xq, Semicolon

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“But in my story, a Yakshi is that woman in us seeking peace and rights and unable to sleep.”
― Koral Dasgupta, A Jar of Stories

“I was trying to make love me when I didn’t yet know that you cannot nice your way into being loved.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

“He often said, “I don’t do commitment,” with a rhythm in his voice, as though miming a rap song, but I didn’t hear what he said; I heard what I wanted to hear: he hadn’t done commitment yet.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

“When my grandmother died, I called him crying, and he said, “Sorry,” and then in the next breath, “Has your period ended so I can stop by?” My period had not ended and so he did not stop by. I believed then that love had to feel like hunger to be true.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

“I don’t read. It’s a waste of time. It’s just for people who want to escape real life.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

“A lot of people don’t know what to do about grief. I don’t blame you for a thing.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

“you really can smile and smile and still be a villain.”
― Nita Prose, Murder at the Royal Ruby

“If women were not practical, most marriages would be failures.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“Miss Bean told me that as a girl she had many suitors, and if she did not marry, it was more from procrastination than from being passed over.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“Do you like goldfish?’ she asked. ‘I do,’ I said. ‘There is something very restful about them. I can watch them for hours. How they silently glide around in their watery world.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“still but if you move towards it, the beautiful creature will dart away. And this was a gazelle I was talking to.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“It isn’t time that’s passing by, my friend. It is you and I….”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass…”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“There is something about passing trains that fills me with awe and excitement. All those passengers, with mysterious lives and mysterious destinations, are people I want to know, people whose mysteries I want to unfold. There is no joy like sitting in a train as it comes out of tunnels and jungles and passes through fields and villages—when small children shout and wave at you and you simply wave back to them.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“If you do, I’ll forgive you all over again,” Sophie assured her. “We can fight and still love each other. That’s what sisters do.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Wedding

“Just leave. He hurts you. Walk away. And they assume we’re not strong. That we let people walk all over us. We’re passive. We let people control us.’ She shakes her head. ‘I’m none of those things. And I’m not the only woman in this situation who is strong.”
― Kathryn Croft, Two Mothers

“shame was a useless emotion, preventing people from making amends because they believed themselves unworthy of forgiveness.”
― C.R. Howell, The Woman in My Home

“Children ran away. I knew this. They ran away for attention or because they were upset or frightened. They ran away because they were bored or because they didn’t get their own way. They came home.”
― C.R. Howell, The Woman in My Home