Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“And the thing is, when you lose someone, you realize you'll eventually lose everyone.”
― John Green

“One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“I doubt there is a loss in the universe more profound than a daughter losing her mother.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

“One bloody battle followed another. Sometimes the North won, sometimes the South, but always the soldiers lost, thousands of them dying or maimed.”
― Marissa Moss, Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero

“I'm an American,' Kabuo cut in. 'Just like anybody. Am I calling you a Nazi, you big Nazi bastard? I killed men who looked just like you - pig-fed German bastards. I've got their blood on my soul, Carl, and it doesn't wash off very easily. So don't you talk to me about Japs, you big Nazi son of a bitch.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“There were tiny moments, like this, when the grief came on strong out of nowhere. It was sneaky, and tricky, and you couldn’t see it coming until it was already there. It came with the mundane, simple tasks: My mother would never be hanging pink streamers at my shower. I would never lean over to someone and conspiratorially whisper, My mother is crazy. She would never become a grandmother.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“I’m aware that many things were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning were woefully inadequate, for instance, so everybody stank like crazy, especially in the summer, and also we had Hitler.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“I don't think a girl ever gets over losing her mom. I'm an adult and it's completely normal and expected for my mom to be dead, but I still feel orphaned sometimes.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Showa...never forget the price that was paid for the world you live in now. Never forget the lessons of history. It's up to you. Don't make the same mistake again!!!”
― Shigeru Mizuki, Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan

“I feel the most sorry for the ones who starved to death. I'll never get over that feeling. People today say 'I'm starving' when they are hungry - but they don't understand what that really means.”
― Shigeru Mizuki, Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan

“It's necessary to learn from the past, to not repeat the same mistakes. And to never forget it was real! This actually happened to us!”
― Shigeru Mizuki, Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan

“For a while, when I was eleven or so, I used to drop the empty cardboard toilet rolls into the john. They would take a while to disappear, five or six flushes usually, but I was in no hurry.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso