“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Today, my life is awesome.
I don’t want to think about tomorrow.
Or the day after that.
So I repeat to myself: Today, my life is awesome.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Don't judge each other. We all have our own shit. Keep your eyes on yours and your nose out of everyone else's unless you're invited in. And when you get the invitation, help, don't judge.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Just when you think you know someone, they change. Or you change. Or maybe you both change. And that changes everything.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I’m not saying you shouldn’t pursue dreams and goals. Just don’t forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don’t bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I know that you’re sad right now. Grieve, but don’t hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me and be happy. You have an incredible life ahead of you. Make the most of every minute. Starting right now.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I've always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone, the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated. Life is complicated.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I love you more than you could possibly imagine.”
"My imagination is endless,”
“Good. So is my love.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“SOME PEOPLE EXCEL IN THE ART OF HUGGING. THEY SOMEHOW MANAGE TO HUG YOU WITH THEIR WHOLE BEING, NOT JUST THEIR ARMS. THEIR WARMTH SURROUNDS EVERY INCH OF YOU. IT MAKES YOU FEEL CHERISHED AND COMFORTED.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You do epic like no one else.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“We all have to fight to make the most of the life we're given.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Imagine for a moment that you were free of all the expectations in your life. What would you do? How would you live your life with no one watching? What would your future look like?”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Your body is a temple. You don’t shit on the temple.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“She’s the poster child for positivity. She’s a freaking ray of sunshine. She doesn’t just look on the bright side … she lives there.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I’m doomed. Guitar players just do it for me.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You’re an amazing woman … a terrible influence, but an amazing woman.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I would've missed out on some of the best moments of my life if I weren't spontaneous. Honestly, I try not to think about the future too much. I'm a huge fan of the present.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Oh, fuck it. Yes, I'm in love with her. I honestly can't remember a time that I wasn't.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Smiles aren’t always happy, but hers is. It’s open, content, and confident.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“He says what’s on his mind and he doesn’t hold back. Life would be so much easier if everyone were that way.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I feel like I’ve been asleep for years and I’ve only just woken up.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“think I just fell in love with butterflies.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Fancy hides a lot, while simple unapologetically puts it out there for everyone to see.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I've given up on life. Or life's given up on me. Either way I'm done." And then his voice hitches and quiets. "Finish me.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You give me courage I never knew I had.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.”
― Laura Moriarty, quote from The Rest of Her Life
“Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“If he had driven to the south coast on a different afternoon, I thought. If he had driven there on one of those afternoons when I was there with Jock during the autumn and winter, instead of one of the days when I wasn’t there. And if we had walked toward each other and caught sight of each other, and I had thought, Oh look, there’s Johannes Alby, and he’d thought, Oh look, there’s Dorrit Weger with her little dog. And if we had stopped and chatted, and if I had invited him back to my house for a cup of coffee or a bowl of soup or some pasta. If it had started like that. If it had started then.”
― Ninni Holmqvist, quote from The Unit
“Words, it seems, are like felt pens. If you don't use them for a while they dry up.”
― Stephen Clarke, quote from A Year in the Merde
“He was struck by the sensation she’d made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.”
― Michael Crummey, quote from Galore
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