February 2010
120 posts
We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm’s...
– Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book,...
– Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
You’re my rock. You’re the strength that keeps me going when my own...
– Flawed by Jo Bannister
January 2010
130 posts
Of course this is what she did every day—-what she was world class at...
– Flawed by Jo Bannister
A family brings comforts but it also brings responsibilities. The first one, the...
– Flawed by Jo Bannister
You aren’t from here. You haven’t lived here as long as I have. But...
– Flawed by Jo Bannister
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party...
– The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (via nostalgicdreams) (via hurricanerita)
Love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and now, it was...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
But I also learned that it’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Our relationship was beginning to feel like the spinning movement of a...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren’t always enough....
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I couldn’t help wondering whether there had been a trace of desperation in...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I wanted to believe her. I wanted it more than anything, but I wondered if it...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
A little mystery is good for the soul.
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I’ve found that someone else’s happiness is usually infectious.
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
‘Everyone judges, it’s human nature.’
‘I know....
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
My dad always said that when you’re struggling with something, look at all...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I’ve always loved full moons. Ever since I was a kid. I liked to think...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
‘Do you ever get scared?’
‘Yeah. Sometimes. It’s not...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I’ve worked with soldiers on all sides of the political spectrum;...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I reflect on these things, and as always, our time together comes back to me. I...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
How do we choose wisely? How can we face loss—-without giving up on love?
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
When a person sets a thing in motion, there’s a feeling of unease, almost...
– Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
How did you get to this point? I know you can’t sum it all up. It’s...
– Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for...
– The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The...
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via runawaytrain)
And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit...
– Dear John♥ ♥ ♥ (via izabelanna)
Happiness, you see, is just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly slight of hand...
– Ellen Hopkins
I had seen beauty, but the beauty had burdened me with responsibility.
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
We shared a secret that would always bind us.
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
She did not understand their tragedy, their search for the freedom that was now...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
I think that most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The germ of creation lies in violence.
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he...
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it,...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty plus pity is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there...
– Vladimir Nabokov on The Metamorphosis by Kafka (via hurricanerita)
But there was no sweetness to the victory, instead I felt that something good...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
I was searching for something, but sometimes I didn’t even know what it...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
But the soul survives. The soul lives on forever. It is the soul that must be...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
In the end, what we care most for lasts only a brief lifetime, then there is...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
We lie together. Smiling and holding on to each other and the night and the...
– A Little Million Pieces by James Frey (via kari-shma) (via bigmawten)
Try to imagine our whole country is a mountain of sand. A mountain of sand so...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
A wise man listens to the voice of the earth. He listens because the weather the...
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
I wondered if the knowledge I sought would destroy me.
– Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya