Tamara > Tamara's Quotes

“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

“Strangers seem like dangerous animals.”
― Joey Graceffa, Children of Eden

“How do you really know if anyone loves you?”
― Michael Thomas Ford

“But alone is good. Alone is safe.”
― Joey Graceffa, Children of Eden

“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“People still think what you look like is who you are.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“In every bit of beauty, I see you.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“We were four people: the children we'd been, and grown strangers now.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“You'll be farther from me than ever, if unreachable wasn't already far enough.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“To say nothing is an answer of a kind. To answer is another.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I?”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“My head is full of seeing you see me.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“Anger makes you tired, but guilt keeps you from falling asleep.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“I live in a world where not being molested as a child is considered luck.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“And so I’m waiting for another rejection, another affirmation that I don’t belong among these people. That it’s not safe for me to be here.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“It's easier to like animals than people.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“It all went the wrong way, like a carefully scripted scene I imagined ahead of time falling apart because nobody else knew their lines.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“There are parts of yourself that you hate; parts that you know other people wouldn't understand.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“It's not safe for me to be out, but they rattled my cage.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“Some things are too important to wait.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“She's like a wild animal ready to bolt, but with nowhere to go. She knows the hurt is inside and running won't help.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“I don't want the memories that I have.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species