“Life isn't always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they'll fizzle out just as fast. Life's an experience, not a destination. All of us have the same destination, but not one of us has an identical experience. You'll find someone who will be there when the fireworks fizzle out and the sky turns black and love you just the same. That’s the one to hold onto.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“You may think the actions that mean the most are the ones we get credit for, but I happen to believe they mean more when people aren't aware.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“The only person who should be able to make you cry like that is yourself. People can betray you all they want and you’ll survive. Even if it hurts and a few tears come, it will be over soon. Betray yourself and everything inside of you will die. That’s something worth crying about. Do you understand me?”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Have you ever thought for once that when you look in the mirror you are hyper aware of your flaws? When the rest of us may see something different. Like a teenager with a pimple. She doesn't focus on her beautiful eyes and cute lips, she zeros in on the one tiny flaw and goes nuts over it." He put his hands behind his head and looked at the ceiling. "You need to stop obsessing over your scars. It's only a quarter of your face and I can't tell you the last time I noticed.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“What would the earth be like, what would we be like, if we never believed that we needed more than we were given?”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“We're comfortable. He knows I love him. He can see it in my eyes, like I can in his. Not everything needs to be as you imagine. Passion can be a calm meadow just as much as a hurricane.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“I hated that I always felt sorry for people who hurt me. Sometimes I wished I were one of those people who held grudges for ten months and stopped talking to people who hurt me.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Well, either way, I realized through all of this that the secret to everything isn’t in love and relationships, or charity and virtue. It’s inside of us. We can choose to see the world and all of its sorrows and scars as something beautiful, or we can dwell in criticism and pick apart things until we see ugliness in beauty.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“I’m a man of my word, but was I wrong? Should I be a man of my heart, even if it betrays my word? What if it betrays another person? I don’t know. How far does a person go before their right becomes a wrong? How do we ever know if we’re right?”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Life isn’t always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they’ll fizzle out just as fast. Life’s an experience, not a destination. All of us have the same destination, but not one of us has an identical experience. You’ll find someone who will be there when the fireworks fizzle out and the sky turns black and love you just the same. That’s the one to hold onto.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Life isn’t about romance. It’s about love.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Truth isn’t truth if it doesn’t upset someone. You can’t please everyone all the time, especially when you’re true to yourself. Lies are comfortable. We can hide behind masks our entire lives, but that’s not love. Be honest. Tell him how you feel. And whatever happens, happens.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
“Sometimes there's bad news and sometimes there's good news. Sometimes we have pain and sometimes we have smiles.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
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“Enlightenment, it is a moment of complete clarity, of pure bliss. At that instant everything will be revealed to you.”
― Tan Twan Eng, quote from The Gift of Rain
“Standing at the point where these photographs were taken, you’re immersed in the most unbelievable quiet. It’s like being at the bottom of the sea except instead of a rusted shipwreck there’s an ancient farmhouse. Even the thoughts in my head sounded loud, and sometimes I found my heart beating hard for no reason except as a reaction against the silence.”
― Tom Rob Smith, quote from The Farm
“When describing both the act of defecating and the substance of fecal matter itself, biologists prefer to use the scientific term "poop." It's both a noun and a verb. A popular field of biology called scatology is the study of scat, which is not to be confused with mere poop. Although technically they're the same, we call it "scat" if we are studying it to learn something about the health and diet of an animal. When the animal has pooped on us or has ruined something with his pooping, we tend to use the term "shit," as in, "Oh, man, he just shit down the back of my neck." So if it's on the ground, it's poop. If it's under your microscope, it's scat. If it's running down your neck, it's shit.”
― quote from Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
“I don't look at anyone else like that. I don't think about anyone else the way I think about you.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, quote from Unmade
“That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
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