I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.
I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.
Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.
Can I tell you honestly that I'd rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?
You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?
What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.
All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.
Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.
If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.
I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.
If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.
They were all you, to me. All of them were you.
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.
Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.
Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed.
Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.
Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?
Macy: "Listen, I can't pretend to be the queen of good advice, here. I've had more boyfriends than I can count, and I'm not so sure that's any better than not having any. But I do know this. When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe, you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid." Elle: "And you're not afraid of it ending?" Macy: "Sure I am, But I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever
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