Zahra (Bookish_Platypus) > Zahra's Quotes

“The world stopped.
All was silence but for their hearts trying to synchronize their crashing.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I’m a person who saves things. I’ll hold on forever. *”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Families shrink and expand. All you can really do is be glad for it, glad for each other, for as long as you have each other.”
― jenny han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Sometimes I wish we’d met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. But”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Nothing good happens after two a.m. Unless you happen to be a fan of watching people play flip cup for hours on end. Not me. No, I’d much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it’s only when we love others—through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof—that we become found.”
― Penny Reid, Love Hacked

“Think of how much better the world would be if people craved compliments about the beauty of their heart rather than the beauty of their face.”
― Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It

“And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you’ve been assigned by people who might love you, but don’t really know who you are anymore.”
― Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It

“I suppose it’s part of why we seek out a partner. Why we’re driven to build a new family, pursue new friendships. There’s freedom in being a blank canvas to another person and having some control over what is painted on that canvas.”
― Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” ​— ​L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl”
― Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“This is just your penis having the feels for my vagina. Your penis is making prank calls! and every single time your penis makes a prank call, my vagina answers the phone. And then you hang up. Or your penis claims wrong number or misdial or no hablo Ingles. It's infuriating, and it's called genital call me maybe.”
― Penny Reid, Love Hacked