Paula > Paula's Quotes

“A closet isn't scary in the daytime, Maeve. It holds clothes, not monsters. Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. Its strength will fade.”
― Kerry Reichs, Leaving Unknown

“If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly applied that it might snap off and ruin someone's carpet, rather than realizing that you'd made color itself tactile.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Your very silence shows you agree.”
― Europides

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
― Euripides

“I was a girl sitting in the sun, enjoying a pepper.”
― Kerry Reichs, Leaving Unknown

“I prefer the company of books.”
― Sophie Divry

“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Joy School

“I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your body agrees so much with what your mind just said.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Jesenski blues

“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.”
― Elizabeth Berg

“And in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in. Finds such a welcome that she stays.”
― Elizabeth Berg, True to Form

“I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep

“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep

“Maybe illusions should be left alone. Because without them, everything looked broken and ugly.”
― Amanda Howells

“She was so thin I could probably deck her on the side of the head with a pack of Marlboro Lights and she'd hemmorrhage internally.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“Putting yourself at risk...that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“You need to take risks to end up feeling safe with someone, which seems to be totally illogical, when you start to break it down. But it's true”
― Amanda Howells

“I knew the vacation wasn't going to last forever... But the here and now was up for grabs, and I wasn't about to let it slip away.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“If you kept your light inside of yourself too long, it might burn out altogether.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping