“... We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“You don't have to say yes to everything, you know. It's okay to say no.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I love you. I don't always understand you, but I love you.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I don't think there's a good reason to run unless someone's chasing me. Seriously.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I just wanted a chance. You know. Like everyone else.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“The heart can function with the wound but it never entirely heals.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“There's not always time to say everything.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“It feels like you stole from me, like you used me. In more ways than one.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I know what it's like to look for someone to fill up the whole inside you.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“Things aren't always as bad as they seem.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I don't want to know their secrets. There's only so far I can go.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“When I was in the hospital, Jeremy made a bet. That you would go to the Winter Ball with Clark." "Really?" I smile. "We're just friends." I tell her. She nods. "They're the best kind.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“The heart can function but it never entirely heals.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
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“There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but in that language the future is referred to as being behind us. It must be behind us, since we can see the past. We walk backwards, blind, into the future, only knowing where we've already been.”
― Andra Brynn, quote from Where I End and You Begin
“An alcoholic. Amy stopped pushing her thumb against the dashboard. His mother had not been baking cookies. Probably she had been upstairs drinking gin from a bottle stored under the bed. Amy didn’t have a clear idea of what a woman alcoholic (a mother alcoholic) would be like, but her own mother had told her once that such women got very sneaky, hiding bottles under their bed.”
― Elizabeth Strout, quote from Amy and Isabelle
“Love's empire is this globe and all mankind; the most refined and the most degraded, the cleverest and the most stupid, are all liable to become his faithful subjects. He can alike command the devotion of an archbishop and a South-Sea Islander, of the most immaculate maiden lady (whatever her age) and of the savage Zulu girl. From the pole to the equator, and from the equator to the further pole, there is no monarch like Love.”
― H. Rider Haggard, quote from Dawn
“No,” Mike said. “You go talk to the Tarrytown guys. They should all be on the first floor catching lunch. See if you can’t convince them to join our cause.” “How convincing should I be?” Drew said, swinging the bat. Mike grabbed the bat. “We want them to help us, not join the guys trying to kill us.” Drew seemed deflated at having to leave his bat in the pile. “I don’t think I want your help,” Shay said. She was like a different person, all in-your-face and shut-the-hell-up. Mike slid the radio back into his cargo shorts. “I don’t think you have a choice.” “I”
― Dayna Lorentz, quote from No Easy Way Out
“We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand on steady spots from which the truth may be glimpsed. And not simply glimpsed—because certainly revelation is available outside of dogma; indeed all dogma, if it’s alive at all, is the result of revelation at one time or another—but gathered in. Definite beliefs are what make the radical mystery—those moments when we suddenly know there is a God, about whom we “know” absolutely nothing—accessible to us and our ordinary, unmysterious lives. And more crucially: definite beliefs enable us to withstand the storms of suffering that come into every life, and that tend to destroy any spiritual disposition that does not have deep roots.”
― Christian Wiman, quote from My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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