Sarah Kay > Sarah's Quotes

“Having fun is a remedy only for those who don't need one.”
― José Saramago, The Double

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Ices, like revenge, are best served cold; but like revenge, too much cold will blunt the taste.”
― Anthony Capella, The Empress Of Ice Cream

“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“Images don't see, you're wrong, images see with the eyes of those who see them.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“If you give someone glowing praise for every little achievement, you've devalued the currency.”
― Richard Templar, The Rules of People

“Truth often came down to what is the most believable version of events.”
― Sarah Pinborough

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The thing about the people, that we choose to bring into our lives, is that they tend to leave pieces of themselves inside of us that we did not choose to keep.”
― J. Callous, Sinners

“Our mothers are our last taste of unconditional love on this earth.”
― J. Callous, Sinners

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“And how easily a hand becomes a fist.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“These are thoughts I never let leave my lips. These are thoughts most mothers don't have.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But REAL LOVE is very quiet, very still. It's boring if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep, calm, and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We become eternal by being held in memory's loving arms.”
― Richard Wagamese, Ragged Company

“My warm affections finding no return... were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“Believe me, if you beheld on lips with grief one smile of joy and gratitude, and knew that you were parent of that smile and that without you it had never been, you would feel so pure and warm a happiness that you'd wish to live forever again and again to enjoy the same pleasure.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Many people don't allow themselves to love... because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“It's always wise to check your maybes.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

“Love is not a feeling, it is a way of behaving.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages for Singles