“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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“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time to solve the dilemma and prevent people from engaging, a few years hence, in bitter and fruitless linguistic conflicts. We know all too well what time will do.
The only possible answer is a voluntary policy aimed at strengthening linguistic diversity and based on a simple idea: nowadays everybody obviously needs three languages. The first is his language of identity; the third is English. Between the two we have to promote a third language, freely chosen, which will often but not always be another European language. This will be for everyone the main foreign language taught at school, but it will also be much more than that--the language of the heart, the adopted language, the language you have married, the language you love.”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“Ich bin noch immer nicht diesem Gefühl des leisen Stolzes, dem Gefühl der Anerkennung entwachsen, das sich einstellt, wenn Kinder einen bei der Hand nehmen.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
“Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
“My brave husband came back from fighting the Turks and brought me a robe of silk and a necklace of human teeth. He sat up at night by his hearth telling tales of battle. Apparently the Turks are ten times more ferocious and fearless than the Scots. 'Perhaps we should invite them here to drive the Scots back,' I suggested, and he laughed, but he didn't kiss me. That's when I learned the truth about scars. A man with a battle scar is a veteran, a hero, given an honoured place at the fire. Small boys gaze up fascinated, dreaming of winning such badges of courage. Maids caress his thighs with their buttocks as they bend over to mull his ale. Women cluck and cosset, and if in time other men grow a little weary of that tale of honour, then they call for his cup to be filled again and again until he is fuddled and dozes quietly in the warmth of the embers.
But a scarred woman is not encouraged to tell her story. Boys jeer and mothers cross themselves. Pregnant women will not come close for fear that if they look upon such a sight, the infant in their belly will be marked. You've heard of the tales of Beauty and the Beast no doubt. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in fairytales. The truth is that the scarred woman's husband buys her a good thick veil and enquires about nunneries for the good of her health. He spends his days with his falcons and his nights instructing pageboys in their duties. For if nothing else, the wars taught him how to be a diligent master to such pretty lads.”
― Karen Maitland, quote from Company of Liars
“The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
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