Karen Miles > Karen's Quotes

“The stories we love best do live in us forever.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that’s what you have to do. And you do the push-ups and you jog and you do all the things beyond exhaustion because you have to. Then one day you’ll discover you’re in the zone and you don’t feel your legs anymore, you don’t feel your arms anymore. You exist just as motion. That’s the zone. Then you can do anything.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
― Isabel Allende

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“People are not mirrors-they don't see you how you see yourself.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Although their eventual fate remains a mystery, I'm certain that what happened to those girls is all my fault.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“I remember seeing him quite a bit around camp, constantly tinkering and fixing. He was younger then, of course. Better looking. Possessed a brooding intensity that intimidated some, intrigued others.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If we believe in monsters, in the supernatural, how do we believe in anything?”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“She'd given love a chance; now she wanted simply to fill the empty spaces. Ease the loneliness while walling off her heart.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Yes, Chase had laid out a banquet, but she was worth more than fried chicken.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“You heard the rapture but you couldn't see it.”
― Opal Jewel

“She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“There is no such thing as a lost cause, and it’s never too late to start over. A flicker of hope in one’s heart is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny.”
― Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

“A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…”
― Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Shocking True Story of One Addict's Double Life

“Each and every one of you sitting in here right now, has an unbelievable life waiting for you just down the road, a life better than you can dream. All you have to do, is keep walking. No matter how bumpy the road gets, or how many unexpected detours you come across, keep putting one foot in front of the other. Keep fucking walking.”
― Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Shocking True Story of One Addict's Double Life

“But addiction is a sneaky bitch. It doesn’t care who you’re dating, who you love, if you have kids, a job, or goals. It doesn’t care who you were or who you plan to be. It creeps in when you least expect it, consumes your thoughts and, eventually, your life.”
― Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

“It is possible to have an amazing, fun, purposeful life after addiction. It really is. Addiction is not the end. Life is fleeting, and it will be over before you know it. You have an opportunity to say right here, and right now…that addiction is not how my story is going to end.”
― Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

“I stashed that pill in my pocket, and I swear to God I think if I'd never taken it, none of the next three decades would have gone the way they did. Who knows? I just know it was really bad.”
― Perry, Matthew

“I stashed that pill in my pocket, and I swear to God I think if I'd never taken it, none of the next three decades would have gone the way they did. Who knows? I just know it was really bad.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“After that, I don't think I spoke for another week because I had realized that my greatest fear had come true, which is that I did this to myself. There was one, upside, though. A fourteen-day coma makes it very simple to quit smoking.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“And if you’re going to blame your parents for the bad stuff, you also have to give them credit for the good stuff.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing