Quotes - Alyssa (Harrisonburg, VA) Showing 1-30 of 49

#1

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, death, dying, jennifer-niven, life, suicide

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#2

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places

2606 likes

#3

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, jennifer-niven

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#4

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, happiness, inspiration, life

1657 likes

#5

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, depression, experience, hurting, mental-illness, ya

1598 likes

#6

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts

1109 likes

#7

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#8

“I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#9

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: life, mental-illness, philosophy

771 likes

#10

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

765 likes

#11

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#12

“Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

309 likes

#13

“If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

tags: depression, mental-illness

297 likes

#14

“Everyone’s got something. Some people are just better actors than others.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

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#15

“You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

tags: friendship, letting-go

109 likes

#16

“What you see ... And on the other side: It isn't me.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

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#17

“Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

tags: love

210 likes

#18

“I needed to find The Dress. You know, the once-in-a-lifetime dress guaranteed to make anyone fall in love with you.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

46 likes

#19

“You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends

tags: life, self-help, truth, understanding, wisdom

10 likes

#20

“Miracles do not belong to fairy tales. Miracles belong to the desperate, because only the desperate believe in bullshit.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends

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#21

“Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends

tags: life-lessons, truths, wisdom

8 likes

#22

“There are no wicked queens or vengeful sorcerers, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t bad people. There are. There are some truly, truly shitty people out there.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends

5 likes

#23

“There are things worth dying for.”
― Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends

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#24

“She wished to be happy, and fell asleep with an entire sky above her.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

142 likes

#25

“I wish second chances were real.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

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#26

“Funny things, aren't they? People. They only believed in what they could see. Appearances were all that mattered, and no one would ever care what she was like on the inside. No one cared that she was breaking apart.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

56 likes

#27

“She would be an object in motion that would stay in motion, even if it meant flattening everything in her path.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

tags: amy-zhang, falling-into-place

55 likes

#28

“It is then, when she releases her need to understand, that everything falls into place.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

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#29

“it’s never too late to change. Every day is a blank page, and your story has yet to be written.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

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#30

“She lives in a world made entirely of sky.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

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