My True Love Gave to Me Quotes

“You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.”
― Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“He says presents aren't important, but I think they are - not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.”
― David Levithan, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Would you rather be great at something you like, or just okay at something you love?”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.”
― Matt de la Pena, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“But people don't need to remember how it felt to be happy and safe in the past. They need to have hope that they can get there again in the future.”
― Kiersten White, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I need you to be my person. I need to see you. And hear you. I need you to stay alive. And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they're standing next to you when the ball drops.”
― Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”
― Holly Black, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Christmas Eve is my favorite... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something - food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar - can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.”
― Kiersten White, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Noel was her very best friend - even if she wasn't his. Noel was her person.”
― Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“We all love and we all lose and we go on loving just the same.”
― Myra McEntire, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Love was love.
But she hoped that he was not a dragon.”
― Laini Taylor, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Sweetheart, when you lose someone, you lose a little bit of yourself, too. And that missing piece? Sometimes you have to lose the rest of yourself to find it.”
― Ally Carter, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Not that kind of cheating," Mags said. "More like...skipping ahead. If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person--you should have to work for that first kiss.”
― Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong. (Your Temporary Santa)”
― David Levithan, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I sang because that is what I do when I am happy and when I'm sad. I sang because it is who I am when I am being the best possible version of me.”
― Ally Carter, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“And there - when he smiles, his whole faces lights up. It's like his other expressions are placeholders.”
― Kiersten White, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.”
― Laini Taylor, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“If you let a single life event define you then all you need to change things--if you want them to change--is another.”
― Myra McEntire, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“She was the goddess of...herself. And he could not look away from her.”
― Laini Taylor, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.”
― Kiersten White, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.”
― Matt de la Pena, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)”
― Gayle Forman, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I notice everything.”
― Kiersten White, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White)”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.
Eating and crying.
Crying and eating.”
― Matt de la Pena, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Thr rareness, the specialness, of North. Of this night. She wished it could last forever. (It's a yuletide miracle, Charlie Brown)”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle.”
― Gayle Forman, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is presents. And in the real world, Santa’s not fair. Rich kids get everything and poor kids get secondhand crap their parents bust their asses to afford. It costs money just to sit on Santa’s lap.”
― Holly Black, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories