Erin H. > Erin's Quotes

“Too much self-sufficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you, Kit thought. You robbed them of how good it feels to give, of their sense of value.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The problem of course is that it isn’t always possible to be kind to idiots, because they’re idiots.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“although you might be able to drum religion into people, you can’t teach faith.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Addicts are addicted to their drugs, and their families are addicted to hope.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“He says you end up marrying the one you don’t understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“He said you don’t have to lead by telling other people what to do, you can lead by just letting them do what they’re capable of instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Humor is the soul's last line of defense, and as long as we're laughing we're alive”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Sometimes two strangers only need one thing in common to find each other sympathetic.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Empathy is like vertigo.”
― fredrik backman, Anxious People

“It is clear to us, and we hope it is clear to the government, that Giuliani would not take an assignment with a company that he felt was acting in an improper way.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People believe what they can see. As long as you control their view, you control their mind.”
― Steve Cavanagh, The Plea