Marisol Lahtz > Marisol's Quotes

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“My parents accepted westernization to survive, and I have had to assimilate to potentially thrive.”
― Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

“The belief that resting was laziness was passed down throughout his family for generations. Rest was uncomfortable. Grind culture was heavily glorified in his family because of the belief that they were behind and needed to do the most to be seen as valuable. He learned self-worth through measuring his accomplishments, not by seeing his own inherent value.”
― Natalie Y. Gutierrez, The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

“So we enjoy remaining time together, then go save planets. Then we are heroes!”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“sometimes she still feels as if she’s a mistaken jigsaw piece who found her way into the wrong puzzle.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“thought the worst thing in the world was going to be having my mom die. But it’s not. The worst thing is learning how to live without her.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“Just a little while longer and I should start to feel human again. Warm emotion will gradually seep back into my soul and color will come back into my world. Silent tears will give way to genuine smiles. Sobs will give way to laughter. Fear will give way to hope. Rage will give way to calm. The urge to lash out and hurt will once again become a compulsion to love. If I can dam up the chaos...if I can hold back the storm...if I can just keep my grip on this life for a little while longer, the sun will come out from behind the clouds and life can begin again.”
― Kelly Rimmer, Truths I Never Told You

“Everyone dies, and yet it’s unendurable. There is so much love inside of us. How do we become worthy of it? And, then, where does it go? A worldwide crescendo of grief, sustained day after day, and only one tiny note of it is mine.”
― Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

“Everywhere, behind closed doors, people are dying, and people are grieving them. It’s the most basic fact about human life—tied with birth, I guess—but it’s so startling too. Everyone dies, and yet it’s unendurable. There is so much love inside of us. How do we become worthy of it? And, then, where does it go? A worldwide crescendo of grief, sustained day after day, and only one tiny note of it is mine.”
― Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

“The joy of having sons is that they worship their mothers. Until one day, suddenly, they don’t. I am not like you, he realizes. We are different. Then, that boy—once small and sweet—begins the long, hard process of separation, until at last he rips the seam. But the holes where mother and son were once knit together remain.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“She is everywhere, in every moment, and also she’s in no one moment. She misses every single one of my moments and I’m not sure who that is harder for: me surviving here without her, or her without me, existing wherever she is.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“It’s funny to Fifi how girls dominate creative-writing classes but men dominate the bestseller”
― Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers

“Maybe a mother is always her son’s best girl. She can hope.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers

“He smells incredible, like Christmas morning and clean sheets.”
― Sophie Cousens, Is She Really Going Out with Him?

“When I was ten, I hadn’t yet formed the walls of stone you helped me build. I was still without the ganas I’d come to gain on my own—product of my own strength, shaped by the women around me.”
― Emilly Prado, Funeral for Flaca

“To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Tell my wife I love her very much…”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Do you know why I kept saying the best song was ‘Space Oddity’?” Vanessa asks. “Because of your favorite part.” “When he says, ‘Tell my wife I love her very much…”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Chloé Cooper Jones”
― Glennon Doyle, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

“US policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular form of colonialism—settler colonialism.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“You saw them working multiple jobs or getting up at five o’clock in the morning, doing a two-hour commute, working with their hands, working at a fast-food place, taking care of other people’s kids, digging trenches, or working in the fields. They may have been single moms, responsible for the family’s livelihood, and filling the role of two parents, but somehow making ends meet. There was no time to rest. Taking care of their health and wellness wasn’t a priority for them, because your health and wellness were.”
― Ann Murray Dunning, Radical Señora Era: Ancestral Latin American Secrets for a Happier, Healthier Life

“For instance, it is very difficult to unlearn the idea that resting means uselessness.”
― Ann Murray Dunning, Radical Señora Era: Ancestral Latin American Secrets for a Happier, Healthier Life

“What we commonly call an “addict,” I believe, is just an exaggerated version of all of us—just a person so desperately in search of relief from the sting of life that they will use anything (or anyone) to soothe it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River

“But please, call me Mari. Never Mary. Never Marie. Mar-ee,”
― Colleen Hoover, Woman Down

“What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace,” and then it goes on, and then, “Most of us live less theatrically, but remain the survivors of a peculiar and inward time.” This feels like the truest thing I have ever read. I guess there’s no bottom to a person, but I feel you have left fewer stones unturned than anyone else who’s ever passed through, and it’s taken me some time to recognize how knowing you has been like coming in from the cold, lonely road to find a warm fire and a table laid, so thank you for that, Theodore.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I felt a sudden wave of anger wash over me. Now you’re outraged? When it was your friend? The cognitive dissonance was just overwhelming. I didn’t dare say it out loud, but what the hell? They destroyed us, destroyed our planet. And one poorly-shot missile or whatever the hell it was, and suddenly it’s a tragedy. Fuck you. Fuck you all.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“New achievement! I’m on a train! Choo Choo, Motherfucker.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

“I’ve missed you, nerd.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers