“I keep wishing you had had a better life...a different life. But a different life would have made you a different Blue." He looked at me then. "And that would be the biggest tragedy of all.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“Once upon a time there was a little blackbird, pushed out of the nest, unwanted.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I was scarred but I was not broken. Beneath my wounds I was still whole. Beneath my insecurities, beneath my pain, beneath my struggle, beneath it all, I was still whole.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“There's a whole lot more to most people than meets the eye, Wilson. Unfortunately, a lot of times it isn't good stuff. It's scary stuff, painful stuff. By now, you know so much scary, painful stuff about me, it's a wonder you're still around. You had me pegged pretty well right from the start, I'd say. You're wrong about one thing, though. Girls like me notice guys like you. We just don't think we deserve them.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I've never felt about anybody the way I feel about you," I confessed in a rush. "I can't imagine that what I'm feeling isn't love. But 'I love you' doesn't feel adequate to express it." I plunged headlong into babbling. "I desperately want you to love me. I need you to love me - but I don't want to need it, and I'm afraid that I need it too much.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“She said 'life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“The beauty of that poem is that everybody can relate, because we all feel like nobody. We all feel like we are on the outside, looking in. We all feel scattered. But I think it's that self-awareness that actually makes us somebody. And you are definitely somebody, Blue. You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I'm nobody, who are you? Are you nobody too?”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“Loving someone means putting their needs above your own. No matter what. Somehow, you figured that out. I'll be damned if I know how, but you did.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“So often, I felt like my hands and heart knew something I did not, and I surrendered the art to them.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“What we believe affects our choices, our actions, and subsequently, our lives. The Greeks believed in thier gods, and this belief affected everything else. History is written according to what men believe, whether or not it's true. As the writer of your own history, what you believe influences the paths you take. Do you believe in something that may be a myth? I'm not talking about religious beliefs, per se. I'm talking about things you've told yourself, or things you've been told for so long that you just assume that they are true.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“You can't control who loves you...you can't let someone love you anymore than you can make someone love you”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I can't control what you see or how you interpret what you see any more than I can control what you think of me.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“And in weeping there was power. The power to heal, the power to release pain and let go, the power to endure love and to shoulder loss. And as the weeks became months, I cried less and smiled more. And peace became a more frequent companion.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“If we sacrifice everything for a cause, we tend to become a spokesperson instead of a lover, an organizer instead of a wife, a mouthpiece instead of a mother.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I could eat a unicorn and pick my teeth with his horn! I'm absolutely famished.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I love the way you smile at me... knocks me on my arse.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I don't have terrible taste in women. I'm mad about you, aren't I?”
“Are you?"
“Yes, Blue. I am. I am completely gone on you.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“If we sacrifice everything for a cause, we tend to become a spokesperson instead of a lover, an organizer instead of a wife, a mouthpiece instead of a mother. I gave everything else away in the name of a greater good, but look how many people I hurt. Look at the ripple effects of thinking my life's work was more important than the people in my life.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“He had become the most relevant thing in my life. Redemption, resolution, revelation, and now relevance.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I know you are incredibly bright, because when you are not being a smartarse your comments in class are very insightful, and when you ARE being a smartarse you are witty and clever and you make me laugh even when I want to slap you.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
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“Get the parents out of the way and then something interesting can happen.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
“Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from Waking the Witch
“A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.”
― Lisa Scottoline, quote from Look Again
“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the time we learn everything, we slowly come to understand it. And while you come to understand everything gradually, you don't remain idle at any moment: you are already attending to your new business; you live, you act, you move, you fulfill the new requirements of every new step of development. If, on the other hand, there were no schedule, no gradual enlightenment, if all the knowledge descended on you at once right there in one spot, then it's possible neither your brains nor your heart could bear it.”
― Imre Kertész, quote from Fatelessness
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