Nobody's Cuter than You Quotes

“There are probably only a handful of times in our lives when someone who will change us forever walks in—when we find someone we can love with our whole hearts, who will challenge us and shape us and make us feel like the world is safer and brighter just because they are in it. A person who loves us for exactly who we are, yet teaches us to be better because of who they are and how they live their life.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Because that's what friends do. They speak the truth when you've lost your way, pick you up and brush you off , tell you that you're going to make it to the other side, and cheer you on until you get there.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. AUTHOR UNKNOWN”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. HENRI J. M. NOUWEN”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“And it made me realize that we often find our people at an early age. The ones who encourage us, love us, and share our weird desire to play with sliced dill pickles in the cafeteria and sing commercial jingles. The years may change our faces, our bodies, and our lives, but there are connections we make early on that remain part of who we are forever.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“We both learned how to be a friend by watching the women who came before us. Women who taught us that it's okay to show someone who you really are-that when you stop hiding behind a mask of perfection and protection, you unlock something beautiful.... Our girlfriends weave a luminous thread from the women we are to the women we hope to become, We may never find perfection, but we'll never be alone.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“I believe that is what happened during this time in my life. God had other things for me, and he knew me so much better than I knew myself, so he moved me along to a new place. It certainly didn't lessen the pain at the time, but if I've learned anything along the way, it's that sometimes the best lessons are the ones that hurt the most.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Of course there was no way my mind could have comprehended all that this friendship would become. There are probably only a handful of times in our lives when someone who will change us forever walks in-- when we find someone we can love with our whole hearts, who will challenge us and shape us and make us feel like the world is safer and brighter just because they are in it. A person who loves us for exactly who we are, yet teaches us to be better because of who they are and how they live their life.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“You hear so many people talk about finding their soul mates only in relation to who they marry, but I think that, as women, our real soul mates are often found when we recognize some version of ourselves in someone else.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“sometimes God brings relationships to an end as a way to move us along to where he has called us to go.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ELIZABETH GILBERT”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“In short, I was like Ron Burgundy and in “a glass case of emotion.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“And even though we knew it couldn't go on forever the way it was, I don't think any of us were ready for it to end so soon. Sometimes the end of an era comes when you still can't comprehend what that time meant - how it shaped you, and how you'll still miss it sometimes, even twenty-five years later.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Because the thing about Nena was that she never failed to make you feel better after you'd spent time with her. She had an easy laugh and a quick smile, and she was the best listener. One of Honey's friends called her on Sunday morning and made the comment that it's hard to lose someone who was your biggest fan. And that's how Nena was. She made us all feel like she was our biggest fan.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Sometimes the things that make sense in light of eternity don't make sense while we're still walking it out here on earth. Yet we will trust him; yet we will praise him.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“And I realized it's kind of a metaphor for friendship in general- being willing to let someone see all your weaknesses and knowing they won't broadcast them to the world. Because life has a way of throwing things our way that aren't always pretty, and they can leave us vulnerable, hurting, and in desperate need of someone who will help us carry our burdens until we're safely on the other side.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“When Perry and I walked into the hospital waiting room and I saw her sitting there, I began to cry, because that's what friendship looks like: knowing your friend better than she knows herself and being there to hold her hand while her heart breaks.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“So we did the only thing we knew to do. We got in the car and drove to Dallas to be at the funeral with Jen. As she and her family walked down the center aisle behind her dad's casket, she smiled at us despite the big tears that were rolling down her cheeks. And that's when I learned one of the most important lessons I've ever learned about what it means to be a good friend: you show up for your people. You don't wait for your friend to ask you to come; you get in your car and go. You don't have to know the right words to say, you don't have to offer sage wisdom about loss and love; you just show up. You hold her hand and hug her neck and wipe her tears. You let her know that you hurt because she is in pain, and you'd do anything to take it from her if you could. You listen.... You show up for your friend, in the good times and the bad times.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“Which is why we have now added a vow to our friendship that we will never ever "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" each other. That at we will always talk things out and never allow miscommunication to derail our relationship.

But the whole conversation made me think about times in my life when I've felt that way, like I've been dropped with no sign that it was about to happen. And I think Gulley is right- it's the worst feeling in the world because it leaves you feeling completely helpless.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“That’s what I told Gulley that morning when she called me on her way to work, and she agreed. Her oldest son, Jackson, is also in junior high, and we agreed it’s not for the faint of heart or the insecure. It’s a new stage of parenting that is incredibly exhausting mentally, with all manner of absurd scenarios we couldn’t have imagined back when we were parenting during the toddler years. Those years were more physically exhausting, and I think Gulley and I survived only because we had each other.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. AUTHOR UNKNOWN”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

“But my personal favorite words of wisdom came from Gulley during the last thirty minutes of the trip, when she broke up a backseat scuffle by declaring, 'When you lick the person sitting next to you, there's a good chance you're going to get punched.'

I believe the only reason that gem is missing from the book of Proverbs is because Solomon must never have traveled with three kids in the back of his chariot.”
― Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship