Nicole Lienemann > Nicole's Quotes

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“The dead pull the living down.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. “What are you doing, son?” the man asks. “You see how many starfish there are? You’ll never make a difference.” The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. “It sure made a difference to that one,” he said.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Psychopaths don't act like Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates. They come off like Hugh Grant, in his most adorable role.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The real world is where the monsters are.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Things are always better in the morning.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail