Melanie > Melanie's Quotes

“It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right...We can make it the whole way, Crick.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.”
― Deb Caletti

“You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“It was love because it was worth it.”
― Jay Asher

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Sometimes that's all you need. To know it's not broken. To know you're still whole and that you'll heal.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.”
― Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“...You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re
really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.”
― Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade

“Your sibling, after all, is the only other person in the world who understands how fucked up your parents made you.”
― Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade

“I don't know when I stopped mattering to him, and I don't know how to undo it. I want it to be like it used to, when all he needed was me.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“When women break up, more than half the time what we man is, "I need this relationship to change." Or, "I need you to change." When men break up, what they mean is, "I want to break up.”
― Kim Gruenenfelder, Misery Loves Cabernet

“Perfect love drives out fear”
― Karen Kingsbury, Loving

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower