Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

“Rubberneckers are an easy target aren't they? They are ghouls, feeding on the misfortune of others. And yet which of us can say we wouldn't look? That we haven't looked as we crawled past a motorway pileup or idled by a police cordon. What are we looking for? Signs of life? Signs of death?”
― M.J. Arlidge

“[ In a relationship] someone's gotta be the iceberg and someone's gotta be the sun.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Providence

“Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Providence

“She says New York was like Sesame Street for grown-ups, everyone has big hearts and you can be anything you wanna be.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Providence

“There's no good place to break someone's heart.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Providence

“Your heart led you into this mess, but you'll need your head to get you out!”
― Jess Ryder, The Ex-Wife

“Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are...if people could handle their self-loathing m customer service would be smoother”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“What the hell do you wear to dinner with the man that you are LITERALLY in love with?!”
― Susan Murphy

“When I look back at my relationship with [ Insert name here ] it's at our highlights reel; our greatest hits. The stuff that crept in, the stuff that drove us apart I too easily forget!”
― Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

“So you can't just blame the person who leaves. If two people are unhappy, clocking the person who actually walks out the door is just getting them on a technicality.”
― Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

“She is a book jacket: all promise!”
― Tara Wilson Redd, The Museum of Us

“You might not know in this moment how you'll ever look into the mirror and see someone worthy of love, but you can start with a dream for it, a tiny dot of desire, which might just turn into action.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“For those who will be gleaned, do we not, at the very least owe them a spectacular end”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Yet this great plain numbness was not the worst place to be. Numbness was a mere purgatory of gray. No, there was a much worse place. Darkness masquerading as enlightenment. It was a place of royal blue studded with diamonds that glistened like stars.”
― Neal Shusterman

“There's nothing scarier than loving someone”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“Women buy underwear for the men they love. It’s economics. Data supports this claim.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“All the things that make you different make you perfect.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“I don't want just a night or a week or a month with you. I want you all the time. I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“The problem is that love and happiness are not concordant. One can exist without the other.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“It’s like a flesh eating bacteria working it’s way to the bone, inching closer to the marrow where all empathy lives.”
― Joseph Souza, The Neighbor

“Sometimes it’s the people who love us the most that hurt us the hardest, because they can.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“...Lies don’t come with gift receipts, you can’t take them back.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“...When you stand at the crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is hope that someone will walk with you.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“Everyone has an opinion, yet the truth is that no one can really know what is right. No one can predict the future, and so all we can do is make a decision based on the facts we have, and—sometimes on what our heart tells us.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”
― Patrick Swayze, The Time of My Life

“Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.”
― Stephen King, Elevation