Letty > Letty's Quotes

“How could she ever doubt that he loved her? When loving her was what he did better than all the things he did beautifully.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“To love is not to be fragile; it is to be unlocked and open. And when something is open, other things can come in.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Forgotten Room

“Love isn't a mistake. But I know true love is rare enough that when you find it you fight for it. Marry me, Kate. Come back to Charleston with me and be with me for the rest of our lives.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Forgotten Room

“Have you ever taken a breath that was so pure it made you realize you'd been suffocating?”
― Nicole Waggoner, Center Ring

“Life is this crazy combination of love and risk and loss; then, just when you think you have it figured out, it throws you a curveball.”
― Nicole Waggoner, Center Ring

“But death, as in birth, never comes at a convenient time. No matter how prepared you are that the moment is nigh, no matter how anticipatory you have been, there is never a moment where the realization that this it it, my life is changed forever, doesn't come as a bit of a shock.”
― Kristy Woodson Harvey, Lies and Other Acts of Love

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Summer was down to the last lick of ice cream before the cone collapsed.”
― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People

“Alison's words were falling stones. Carole reached to grab them, to hold them, to put them in order. It was so hard, the stones so heavy. The words kept coming. Her daughter's face was before her, her lovely, dear face, and she could no nothing to help her. Not now, not while the voices were drowning her out, burying sense and decency and love.”
― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People

“The groan of the lake was the earth tuning for a song she was desperate to hear.”
― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People

“The careless arrows of misfortune were tangents glancing off the pure circle of her dreams.”
― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People

“I sucked in the pungent air and a palette knife of pain sliced through my skull as though my brain were a glob of acrylic paint.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Left Behind