Briana > Briana's Quotes

“Hand on heart, which of us hasn’t wanted to pull a gun after talking to a twenty-year-old?”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“If anyone asked her to sum up her view of the world, she always quoted Martin Luther: “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We can't change the world, and a lot of the time we can't even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to...be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“those who deserve to be in my circle will like me just as I am, and will treat me the way I deserve to be treated.”
― Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

“Avoiding negativity is not a sign of weakness, but wisdom. No need to fight against. Simply don’t go there.”
― Jeeyoon Kim, Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams

“I found that, even often for myself, it is hard to dream. We often put ourselves into a reality box, and don’t let our crazy, wild ideas out to walk around. Just like our physical muscles, the less we use our dreaming muscle, the harder it becomes, as that part of us weakens over time.”
― Jeeyoon Kim, Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams

“He swiped my credit card, dropped my shirt into a plastic bag, and said, “Thanks for coming in tonight. It’s awesome what you’re doing. We really appreciate it.”
― Melody Warnick, This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“we are meant to love one another, to be connected to one another, to support each other, to lift each other up, to listen to each other.”
― Jeeyoon Kim, Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams

“For Don, changing underserved communities by choosing to live there is the ultimate expression of loving where you live. “Lots of people would like to see neighborhoods change,” he says, “but they don’t want to have to change their own life to modify them.”
― Melody Warnick, This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“wish the world was ready to be the way you see it. I wish that the rest of the people on earth with us were capable of living up to your expectations. But they aren’t.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Youth culture today is cynical about love. And that cynicism has come from their pervasive feeling that love cannot be found.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“This is the best day of my fucking life!” he shouted. “Only! One! Bed! My second-favorite trope!”
― Olivia Dade, All the Feels

“You’ve taken my trust, my honor, my self-respect. You’ve sullied me. You made me feel filthy. I’ll never feel clean again.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are being misunderstood or judged unfairly.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

“It made it hard to find a decent restaurant her mother wouldn’t complain about being “too ethnic.”
― Susannah Nix, Chemistry Lessons Box Set: Books 1-3

“It’s still scary as fuck, though,” Alex continues. “Putting your heart out there and not knowing whether the other person will be careful with it.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Weather Girl

“Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It’s so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y’all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

“I just won’t fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

“It means you figure out exactly what you want your life to look like, and I find a way to fit into it.”
― Christina Lauren, Something Wilder

“Shay had always had one of those faces meant for smiling. Not every face was meant for smiling but Shay’s was one of them.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“The normal messages were tempting to respond to, but every time I opened them, I fast-forwarded to getting hurt, to feeling betrayed, and I froze.”
― Denise Williams, The Love Connection

“LILY SULLIVAN IS warm, personable, and sweet in a delicious Southern way”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Ọṣun tried to swallow her curiosity (she wasn’t used to the taste, as she rarely found what men said to be interesting),”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“This is a crisis! We are not taking care of our children.”
― April Ryan, Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem – A White House Reporter's Chronicle Featuring Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, and Valerie Jarrett

“My heart only beats as an echo of yours.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“with tomato sauce and cottage cheese and pull the bubbling lasagna from the oven.”
― Angel S. Vane, Trusting Luck

“Don’t be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don’t live a lonely life without love. I’ve been so worried that because of what happened you’ll give up on falling in love. Love is wonderful. I don’t want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live. When you get old like me, you’ll understand.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop