“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong?”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“But life’s never easy when you need it to be.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves.
There they go again.
Jiggle.
Jaggle.
I'm a mess.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“[Wheel] rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be a part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. I have a theoru that the answers to all og life's major questions can be found in a John Mayer song.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“Maybe it's just hart to see what's right in front of you while you're frantically searching for it.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“Derek’s like, “So . . . what do you want to do first?”
“I don’t know.”
“Feel like ice cream?”
“It’s, like, three degrees out.”
“That’s why getting ice cream would be badass.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“No relationship is guaranteed to last forever. But I'm okay with being here in the Now and letting later work itself out.
So just like that, I walk out of this life. And into the one I've been waiting for.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I have a theory that the answers to all of life’s major questions canbe found in a John Mayer song.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“I wish it could stay like this forever, with the anticipation of everything. I know what it's like when you just need to be alone for a while and block out the world.
It's weird. How time can change something you thought would always stay the same.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“But I'm okay with being here in the Now and letting later work itself out.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“The point of learning about history is so we can improve the future.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
The love I bear thee, finding words enough,
And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,
Between our faces, to cast light on each? -
I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach
My hand to hold my spirits so far off
From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof
In words, of love hid in me out of reach.
Nay, let the silence of my womanhood
Commend my woman-love to thy belief, -
Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,
And rend the garment of my life, in brief,
By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,
Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, quote from Sonnets from the Portuguese
“Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Because You're Mine
“People never mean to do thingd that are hurtful, yet sometimes it just happens, through an intense moment, through brief rationalization, or by simply speaking words that only belong inside one's head.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Forever of Ella and Micha
“I think we’re both actually pretty screwed up, but together we just work and we make each other better.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Jet
“Well,” he said with an affected sigh, “you have my approval, at least.”
“Why?” Hyacinth asked suspiciously.
“It would be an excellent match,” he continued. “If nothing else, think of the children.”
She knew she’d regret it, but still she had to ask. “What children?”
He grinned. “The lovely lithping children you could have together. Garethhhh and Hyathinthhhh. Hyathinth and Gareth. And the thublime Thinclair tots.”
Hyacinth stared at him like he was an idiot.
Which he was, she was quite certain of it.
She shook her head. “How on earth Mother managed to give birth to seven perfectly normal children and one freak is beyond me."
"Thith way to the nurthery.” Gregory laughed as she
headed back into the room. “With the thcrumptious little
Tharah and Thamuel Thinclair. Oh, yeth, and don’t forget
wee little Thuthannah!”
― Julia Quinn, quote from It's in His Kiss
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