Felicia Ortins > Felicia's Quotes

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“The missing aren't missing, they're only departed”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“The Expansion Process in a nut shell
1. Notice
2. Breathe
3. Ask to be open and expand again
4. Go into the pain
5. Feel the body
6. Use the tools
7. Communicate clearly”
― Janet and Chris Attwood

“No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.”
― Andrea Levy, Small Island

“He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance”
― Andrea Levy, Small Island

“There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.”
― Andrea Levy, Small Island

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”
― Andrea Levy, The Long Song

“Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.
'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked.
She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?"
"It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There is a difference between being told the truth and being beaten over the head with it”
― Elisabeth Grace Foley, The Mountain of the Wolf

“Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.”
― Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land

“Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“I felt sick with hatred then for my own people. If you had asked me why I hated them, I might have said that I hated them for being so loud and for being so drunk. But now I believe I hated them for suddenly being my people, not just other people. In the United States, it is very easy for me to forget that the people around me are my people. It is easy, with all our divisions, to think of myself as an outsider in my own country. I have been taught, and I have learned well, I realize now, to think of myself as distinctly different from other white folks - more educated, more articulate, less crude. But in Mexico these distinctions became as meaningless to me as they should have always been.”
― Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land

“But for now I prefer to think that I will go somewhere that is not so overimagined.”
― Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land

“An apology is also an admission of guilt”
― Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land

“Love is the first step toward breaking up”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“You can't make the better of the dead, sweet child...though I reckon death could make the better of us”
― Rin Chupeco

“The sadness eats you up sometimes, remembering what could have been, what you should have done...he had my heart and with it most of my magic. We can endure any amount of sadness for the people we love.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six