Sarah > Sarah's Quotes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
― Dolly Parton

“I know who I am; I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I am capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.”
― Dolly Parton

“You die twice. Once when your heart stops beating and again when your name is spoken for the last time.”
― Kate Thompson

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“You die twice. Once when your heart stops beating and again when your name is spoken for the last time.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“Who are we to say what people ought or ought not to read?” she persisted.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“There is no going back. One decision leads to the next and then the next, a continual stumbling forward over each past mistake until you find yourself someplace entirely different from where you started or from where you ever intended to go.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Hadley & Grace

“I’ve had a lot of things to feel ashamed about and I’ve learned most of them are other people’s problems. Not mine.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“And I know the past isn’t a mirror image of the future, but it’s a reflection of what can be. And when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can still draw blood for a long, long time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“The cruel act of not being loved back by the person you love the most burns like white-hot phosphorus.
Maybe it’s not that there was no love, just
not enough. Maybe they loved themselves more than they loved you. They might’ve promised they’d walk through fire for you, and you realized too late that they were the one lighting the match.”
― Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

“So the way I see it, to love me the way I love to be loved is true love,”
― Jason Reynolds, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .

“The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its makers”
― Juliette Gordon Low

“Harmony: It's not a competition. We already like you. There is no need to brag about your achievements.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“Hygge is about giving your responsible, stressed-out achiever adult a break. Relax.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

“But those rules belonged to another life, to another girl she’d left behind.”
― Akshaya Raman, The Ivory Key

“I feel like I'm being pulled in a hundred different directions and my feet are stuck in cement.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“...you can't control how people look at you, but you can control how far back you pull your shoulders and how high you lift your chin”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“When humanity turns on its children... then you know we are lost.”
― Sabaa Tahir, Heir

“Some fall in glorious ways. One green fields of battle as old warriors, surrounded by friends, fighting for their homes, fighting cruelty.

Some fall crawling in the dirt of Forrestville, Tennessee, in the dark, impossibly young and alone, for no good reason at all.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“I’m tired of watching children perish. I’m tired of watching the world grind up gentle people. I’m tired of outliving those I shouldn’t be outliving. I’ve made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King