Latest Quotes

“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive it.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“I’m not sure anyone’s life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“There are people who add goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“He wished she would trust him with the details of her past, not because he was under the illusion that he could somehow rescue her or felt that she even needed to be rescued, but because giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future. It meant they would be able to have a…”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Home late, I see the lamp lit on the coffee table. You're there, still dressed for work, folding clothes,eyes mild at the task, arms embracing warm cotton before laying it down as if to bed. I lean against the mantle and breath softly to hear the tenderness of clothes buffeting cloth. Then you stand…”

— Neal Allar, Laundry

“And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered 'Listen,' a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a whil…”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and fall and rise again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. Boats and youth passing and distant trees, ‘the falling fountains of the pendent trees.’ I see it all. I…”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”

— Andrea Gibson, Pansy

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.”

— Buffy Summers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

“Expression is a miracle. Now try writing it down. Now try making it gorgeous. Now try making it perfect. An idea loses a lot and gains more as it hitchhikes its way through the world. But if it is expressed with the grace of a good cocktail at the end of a long and tiresome day, somebody did somethi…”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood

“A wounded deer leaps highest.”

— Emily Dickinson, A wounded deer leaps highest

“Love doesn’t fit in a round hole. And the world is full of square pegs.”

— Rachel Connell, He Was Everything I Didn’t Want And Everything I Actually Needed

“You need to love yourself now, and you need to have faith that you will meet the person you’re meant to be with one day, even if it’s not today.”

— Rachel Connell, He’s Not The One Who Got Away, You’re Just The One Who’s Looking Back

“Once upon a time, I tortured myself by counting calories and stuffing my body into the thongs I knew you liked. My shopping cart was filled with ways to make you love me. But now, I’m smarter. Now, I dress for me. I don’t need a man to check out my ass in order for me to feel sexy. I already know my…”

— Holly Riordan, To The Man Who Made Me Doubt My Beauty