Becky Q. > Becky Q.'s Quotes

“When you're growing up, you don't ask whether your family's good, do you? Especially if you don't know anything else. They're just your family.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Is it so wrong for us to just be happy while watching something? Do we always have to be thinking? Do we always have to be depressed? Do we always have to participate in entertainment that highlights drugs, abuse . . . sexual assault? Life is hard enough as it is. Why can’t we just escape that and enjoy something that doesn’t sprinkle us with a heavy dose of depression afterward?”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Grace costs you nothing”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Was this why people wanted a partner? This feeling at the end of a rough day that they’d survived something together?”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“All of us are so much more alike than we want to accept.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“But then I remind myself that life is really just about one moment at a time. To not think about two years from now, but to think about right now. Two years from now will figure itself out.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“It is so easy to notice things about people and tell them. I don't know why people don't just give out compliments every single day.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“I wanted to see who I was, without using another person’s love for me as a measurement of my value.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“It is my firm belief that every once in a while, the universe will present you with a gift. It could be something very small and seemingly insignificant, but it will lead you down the right path. And usually, it’s when you least expect it.”
― Vivien Chien, Death by Dumpling

“Books were my solace, my escape. There was nothing like that feeling of holding a book in your hand and traveling to another place, another time … another life. I was called a nerd a lot because of it, but I didn’t care. I wear that hat with pride.”
― Vivien Chien, Death by Dumpling

“They all love being around me when I'm happy, the life of the party, not when I'm too deep inside my own head.”
― Ann Liang, I Could Give You the Moon

“The best thing about heartbreak is how spectacularly predictable it is.”
― Ann Liang, I Could Give You the Moon

“Most guys start scaling down their efforts once they believe the girl is already theirs, but Henry seems to view each passing moment as a new opportunity to remind Alice that he’s wholeheartedly hers.”
― Ann Liang, I Could Give You the Moon

“Like how sometimes I make plans I'm genuinely excited about in the beginning, then cancel them the night of, not because I hate other people, but because I hate how I look.”
― Ann Liang, I Could Give You the Moon

“Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“A thing can be true and not the truth,”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“In the silence, Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“You don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“It’s scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“time runs only one way.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“She is like no one you have ever met. She cares not what people may think of her. She follows entirely her own course.” He sits forward, placing his elbows on his knees, dropping his voice to a whisper. “She can look at a person and see right into their very soul. There is not a drop of harshness in her. She will take a person for who they are, not what they are not or ought to be.” He glances at Eliza. “Those are rare qualities, are they not?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet