Liz > Liz's Quotes

“The trickiest part of being a mom, especially a single mom, is knowing when it’s okay to fall apart. Today they will wake up to a familiar feeling of loss, the light scab they’ve formed over the wound Ben left will be dislodged. I invited”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“Kenzie’s since learned that when someone you love doesn’t love you back, there are two directions you can go. Option one, you can meet someone else and try again. And again, and again, until one day, if you’re lucky, you meet the person you’re meant to be with, who does love you back, and who does want to make a life with you. But there’s no guarantee you’ll find him, and even if you do, there’s no guarantee it will last. Option two, you never try again. You accept that love is shitty. Love hurts. Love takes away more than it gives, so what’s the point? So you stop chasing it. You spend time with whoever you want to, without expectations, understanding that the only thing you can trust is the exact moment you’re in.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“My mother made me wise, made me independent, made me learn how to fight for myself.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Families are like fingerprints; no two are the same, and they tend to leave their mark.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Pity fades with age, hate is lost and found, but guilt can last a lifetime.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Everyone’s life has uncharted waters—the places and people you didn’t quite manage to find—but when you feel as though you never will, it’s a special kind of sorrow. The unexplored oceans of our hearts and minds are normally the result of a lack of time and trust in the dreams we dreamed as children. But adults forget how to believe that their dreams might still come true.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Some people drink to drown their sorrows; others drink so they can swim in them.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Sometimes people don’t know they’re in love until they’re not.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Of course we all have different handwriting. Just like fingerprints or DNA, it’s to remind us that we are individual beings. Our thoughts and feelings are there to be expressed and they are our own: unique. I don’t feel the same way as you about the world, and that’s fine. We’re not designed to always think and feel the same. We are not sheep. Agreeing with someone about something is a choice, try to remember that. Don’t waste your life wishing to be like someone else, decide who you are and be you.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Everyone deserves a second chance,” Nana said when we were alone. “Even bad people?” I asked. “Everyone you know is both good and bad, it’s part of being human.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Our future is just our past in the making.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“It was the first time I understood that withholding the truth was almost, but not quite, the same as lying.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Life is a performance, and we don’t all like the scripts we’re given; sometimes it’s best to write your own.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Sometimes we have to let go of what we had in order to hold on to what we’ve got.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Love always trumps hate when you fear you might lose someone for good.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“When you love someone, you can’t just turn it off, there isn’t a switch. Even if you hate someone that you once loved, there is still a little bit of love there. Love is like the soil that hate needs in order to grow. I think it’s rare in relationships to have one without the other.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“I often wonder whether we are born with love in our hearts and life just slowly erases it, eating it away little by little, until all the empathy and warmth is completely rubbed out. We learn to love regardless of whether there is anyone in our lives to teach us how. Love is as instinctive as breathing, but we don’t have to give it away. Like our breath, we can hold on to it if we choose to. But not forever. Because then it starts to hurt.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Sometimes when people try too hard to be more than they are, they end up being less than they were.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Food was my currency. Hungry was an emotion for me. I felt that shit in my soul.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“And that point is, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve known somebody. People change. Or you don’t really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summer Rental

“When you lose someone you love, you start to look for new ways to understand the world.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“It’s a mistake to think of one’s life as plot, to think of the events of one’s life as events in a story. It’s a mistake. And yet, there’s foreshadowing everywhere, foreshadowing I would’ve seen myself if I’d been watching a play or reading a novel, not living a life.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“Being married isn’t being two columns, standing so straight and tall on their own, they never touch. Being married is leaning and being caught, and catching the one who leans toward you.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“The mind is mysterious. A master of sleight of hand.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“There is a difference between what is built in the body and what is built in the imagination.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“There is no parenting-a-newborn medication, I insisted. My life is hard, and there is no pill to make a hard life easy. I remember saying that, almost verbatim.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“We all come into the world unfinished, still stitching ourselves together.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“But every teacher is human. Likewise, parents are not wise oracles—they’re just people trying to shepherd other people through the world. We may know the right path to take, but knowing the way and consistently walking it are two different things. Everything we learn, we learn from someone who is imperfect.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful