Colette Freedman > Colette's Quotes

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”
― Colette Freedman

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive”
― Keith Urban

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“We are the breakers of our own hearts”
― Eudora Welty

“I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”
― Dorothy Parker

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Trying to restructure a perfectly structured script is like trying to fit in a size four jeans when you're a size ten.”
― Colette Freedman

“One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.”
― Colette Freedman