Einya > Einya's Quotes

“the best cure for anything was candles and a bath,”
― Erin Sterling, The Ex Hex

“Would've been worth it," Rhys said, and then his smile faded even as the look in his eye grew warmer. "I was mad about you, Vivienne," he said softly.
Sincerely.
"Utterly mad.”
― Erin Sterling, The Ex Hex

“Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“I’m saying,” Rachel replies, “that purpose matters more than contentment.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It hurts to want it all, so many things that can't coexist within the same life.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“On vacation, you can be anyone you want. Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m basically driven by a mixture of caffeine and familial guilt.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“Don’t leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“Meddy, how can you say that? Your aunties coming over, so late at night, coming to help us get rid of body, and we don’t even offer them any food? How can? Oh, we have dragon fruit, good, good.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“Michael was mint chocolate chip for her. She could try other flavors, but he’d always be her favorite.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“Women buy underwear for the men they love. It’s economics. Data supports this claim.”
“Are you telling me you love me, Stella?”
She hugged Karate Bear tight and nodded, suddenly overcome by shyness.
“You’re not going to give me the words?” he asked.
“I’ve never said them to anyone but my parents.”
“You think I run around telling women I love them?”
He pulled her close and pressed their foreheads together.
“I’m going to get the words out of you. Tonight.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“My religion has never been a problem. It's the ideals of the generations before me.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I'm not a bad person for wanting. But I feel like I am.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I think you are beautiful, too, Maybell. I think that you walked into my life and absolutely ruined it with how beautiful you are.”
― Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

“Cardigans are my kryptonite.”
― Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

“But she hadn't chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn't matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn't doing it for her. There wasn't anything I could do to change that. And that made me feel like there was something inherently not good enough about me.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

“The only way to make it in this world is to want it more than anyone else”
― Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau, Kisses and Croissants

“I simply spoke in a way that I would be liked within whichever community I happened to be in. I responded to wherever I was in order to adapt to it. I was just like a robot.”
― Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

“The thing about fic is that is comes from love. Characters you love so much, that you feel so deeply for, you'll watch them fall in love a thousand different ways, over and over.”
― Emma Mills, This Adventure Ends

“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“How it all started was in the first day of English, when Brother John had us analyze some stupid poem, and you raised your hand and said something so smart about it that suddenly the poem didn’t seem stupid anymore. And I knew that you were the kind of person I wanted to know. But what I didn’t know yet was that you can tell a girl you want to hang out with her because she said something smart. So I looked for an excuse to talk to you, and I found one.” She’s never told me this before. “It wasn’t about a manicure,” she says. She shakes her head as though the idea were absurd, even though it’s the only version of the story I’ve known until now.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You