“We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers us
that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“You can’t ever know the real anybody unless you’re friends with them. And sometimes not even then.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“All I can do is hope.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“I'm not sure if our friendship is strong enough to survive into next year when we’re away at college. But. We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected. So I have to hope for us. All I can do is hope.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over.
There is no safe. There is no control.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“I can’t tell how much of our connection is because of the things we still have in common or the one thing that bonds us for life. But no matter what happens, I know I can totally count on Erin for anything. And she knows I’d do anything for her.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Our destination isn't clear. All I know is that I want to get there together. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you. Maybe I dont' have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I'm headed, I know it's exactly where I'm supposed to be.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“We had algebra together, right?”
“Yeah.” That was two years ago. I only vaguely remember him. Something about circles. “Didn’t you draw perfect circles?”
“That’s what I’m known for.”
“Really?” Erin goes, all excited about the circles.
Jason says, “No, it’s just this one time I went up to the board and I had to draw a circle and it came out really . . . round.”
“Which is always a good thing, when you’re drawing a circle,” I say.
“Exactly.” Jason smiles at me.
“It was more than one time,” I remind him. For some reason, it’s all coming back to me now. “It was more like three or four times.”
“What can I say?” Jason goes. “You got me.”
Now we’re both smiling.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“I’m trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It’s just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I’m trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Is your dad still in a huffufle about it?” I ask.
“Oh, he’s huffufled, all right.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“The first thing we saw at the pet store was this scary white cat sitting on his own pedestal. He fluffed out his fur in a huff of attitude. His weird eyes were like lasers, way more expressive than human eyes. It felt like he could read my soul. His eyes were all, Yeah. I know you. I know everything you’re thinking. The cat was acting all exotic and important. Which I guess is what happens when you’re put on your own pedestal.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Somehow, I manage to open the door. And smile at the enormous bunch of balloons Erin has for me. And act like my normal self (or at least what I think my normal self acts like).”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“The Unknown is scary. I’ll always have some fear about what’s going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Maybe I don’t have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Simplemente no creo en irradiar más odio al mundo cuando alguien te está dirigiendo mala energía.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Es interesante como puedes conocer a alguien por un largo tiempo, y entonces un día simplemente lo ves de una forma totalmente diferente.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“Sometimes I think life could be so much easier if I knew everything that was going to happen. If the Unknown could be obliterated, I wouldn't have to be afraid of it. I could finally know what it feels like to be fearless.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
“I’ve always wanted to go on a hot-air-balloon ride. And Jason knows it. He knows it and he didn’t just sit around knowing it. He actually did something about it.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Something Like Fate
Susane Colasanti
Born place: in New Jersey, The United States
Born date May 1, 1973
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“We never know the end of the story until we get there.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Rules of Magic
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.”
― Greg McKeown, quote from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.”
― Aminatta Forna, quote from The Hired Man
“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from A Gathering Light
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now.
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: Know thyself!
Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm, we halt, stricken dumb: it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren't.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
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