Connie > Connie's Quotes

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
― Harlan Coben

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
― Barbara Bloom

“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.”
― Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror

“My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264”
― Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror

“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye

“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye

“In Joe’s experience, the person who talked the most very often had the least to say.”
― C.J. Box

“We’re trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.”
― C.J. Box, Free Fire

“Because it’s indicative of a tired mind-set. It’s nothing more than mental jerking off: puffed-up officials trying to make order out of random acts when all around them their world is about to explode—but they just don’t know it, or care. It’s like trying to find the fly shit in the pepper. I mean, who cares?”
― C.J. Box, Free Fire

“In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

“I’m doing the best I can, it’s usually not good enough and that’s just the way it is.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“He was simply gone, and he took all our peace with him.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Shadow Land

“Then sleep reached her, a sucking undertow, and she went over backward.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Shadow Land

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“If you don’t want the fish, why do you catch them?” A few seconds pass. “For the quality of the conversation.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“And now,” she concluded, “I shall have to work out my own salvation”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“Love is a queer thing, it hurts but it gives so much more in return!”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“His great love, however, was the detective story, which he described as “the one dependable and unfailing anodyne in a world so realistically murderous that fictive murder becomes refuge and retreat.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“Just think how the world would’ve turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.”
― Charles Belfoure, The Paris Architect

“Listen and love and support and whatever you can. But you can’t expect to save them. You can’t hold yourself responsible for their choices.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean

“silence ends an argument quicker than words.”
― Mindy Mejia, Everything You Want Me to Be

“it’s not unusual for God to have to put things right in front of my nose before I notice them.”
― Iona Grey, Letters to the Lost