Sarah Doherty > Sarah's Quotes

“There’s something quite special about a granny’s house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their hearts forever.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“There is no syllabus for life that outlines the steps you need to take to graduate to the next event. This life itself is the lesson and the test and there is no dean’s list and no gold stars. There is just the sum of your relationships and your actions, measured by how you feel when you lie down to go to sleep at night, and how many people heart your tweets. I”
― Nora McInerny Purmort, It's Okay to Laugh

“I'm not so worried anymore, because now I know nobody knows what they are doing in life, and nobody knows what to do when bad things happen, to themselves or to other people. We make it up as we go, and sometimes we are big and generous and sometimes we are small and petty. We say the wrong things, we obsess over all the ways we got it wrong and all the ways that other people did, too. The only thing I know for sure it that it is okay not to know everything, to try and fail and to sometimes suck at life, as long as you try to get better.”
― Nora McInerny Purmort, It's Okay to Laugh

“You won’t do it because you are Superwoman, you’ll do it because it’s your life, and there is nobody who can live it for you.”
― Nora McInerny Purmort, It's Okay to Laugh

“In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“I have never been one of those people - I know you aren't either - who feels that the love one has for a child is somehow a superior love, one more meaningful, more significant, and grander than any other . . . But it is a singular love, because it is a love whose foundation is not physical attraction, or pleasure, or intellect, but fear. You have never known fear until you have a child, and maybe that is what tricks us into thinking that it is more magnificent, because the fear itself is more magnificent. Every day, your first throughout is not "I love him" but "How is he?”
― Hanya Yanagihara

“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man