Beautiful Ugly

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.

I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.

Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person. Especially yourself.

Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn To live with both sides of the same coin and see the light in the darkness. The world is Beautiful ugly, relationships are Beautiful ugly, and life is Beautiful ugly.

Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.

My books have always been a place to hide myself inside myself when the real world gets too loud.

People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.

Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control governments, men control the media, and it is always men who start wars. Men have tricked women into thinking they see us as equals, but real equality for all woman everywhere, still feels like little more than a pipe dream. The women on this island have had enough.

Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.

It’s strange to think that this spectacular night sky is always above us, wherever we are. We’re all just too busy looking down to remember to look up.

The only good thing about losing everything is having nothing left to lose.

I waste so much time replaying old conversations, wondering if things might be different now if I had said something different then. But it’s all a waste of time. Wishing you could change the script of your life when the scene is over is pointless.

No man is an island, But a woman can be if she wants.

When life blends itself into a question mark You start looking for answers And when you can’t find the right ones You go looking for the wrong ones instead.

Sadness can consume a person if it is allowed to linger too long. It takes root and buries itself inside a person's soul, until every thought is too heavy, too painful to think.

Grief is like a fingerprint, different every time.

… they were all magicians of words, and that was my favourite kind of magic.

Mors janua vitae? It’s Latin for ‘death is the gate of life.

Why do some men always think they are right, despite having so much previous experience of being wrong?

Writing is like being beaten to death by your own dream.

there’s no need to be afraid of the dead, it’s the living you have to watch out for.

We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark times, but there is still love and light if you look for it.

Hope can be just as devastating as despair.

I think sometimes things have to get really dark for us to see what we have.

Constantly lying to yourself requires a special variety of stamina.

One of the many things I love about my dog is that he always agrees with me.

Maybe everyone reaches an age when they can’t help thinking that they should have done more, lived more, been more than who they are. I’m not who I wanted to be.

Justice is only for those who can afford it,