Hazel > Hazel's Quotes

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.”
― Lori Lansens, The Girls

“If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses

“Carry the confidence.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”
― Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale

“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Last Time I Saw You

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet

“But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other.”
― Isabel Hoving, The Dream Merchant

“When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“... we all need a little bit of rescuing from time to time. It doesn't make us weak.”
― Carrie Jones, Need

“We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.”
― Hayley Long, Downside Up