You know how sometimes you realize you're doing or saying the wrong thing, but you just can't stop yourself? You can literally hear the words coming out of your mouth and you just want to shove them back in because the real you, the good you, would never want to be this way, but you just keep going? —Robin Benway in Also Known As More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. —Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. —Robert Byrne More about this quote Tags: certainty change status quo flux Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband. —Lisa Kleypas in Devil in Spring More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. —Jenny Han in Lara Jean More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. —Celeste Ng in Little Fires Everywhere More about this quote Tags: acceptance mistakes regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable. —Mary H.K. Choi in Emergency Contact More about this quote Tags: love preciousness vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives. —Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver More about this quote Tags: relationships pain frustration ache Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities. —Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver More about this quote Tags: freedom want kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Tags: war humor America Russia bombing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger…and I still loved her. I still do. —Brandon Sanderson in The Way of Kings More about this quote Tags: love pain hurt betrayal frustration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right. —Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give More about this quote Tags: right morality pain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: optimism pessimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, ready to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. This isn't pathological. It's normal. It's why you find yourself, at twenty-four, or thirty-five or forty-three, unwrapping a present or walking down an aisle or crossing a busy street, doubled over and missing your mother. —Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters More about this quote Tags: grief loss mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email