Quotations (23)

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"there should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying,but only for a month."
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your…
“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”
“True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
M_ALCOTT
" I was born for a very specific purpose. I wasn't the result of a cheap bottle of wine or a full moon or the heat of the moment. I was born because a scientist managed to hook up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm to create a specific…
"Either this girl loses her sister, I think, or she's going to lose herself."
busyinbillspants
“I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”
busyinbillspants
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
busyinbillspants
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?" p138