“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“This is life. We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of really great stuff too.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Those are the things that define us. The way we love the people around us, and the choices we make to show it. That's what makes us who we are.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I like it because it’s the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They’re anyone’s guess.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“No one ever died from having too much information. It’s the misunderstandings that are the problem.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak?”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“I guess that's the thing about getting older. You realize your differences can be good things. Not just bad ones.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“It’s not that most girls are delusional, per se. It’s just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different. And if there’s one thing I’m really against, it is turning a blind eye to reality. What’s the point? Things are the way they are, and the best thing for us to do is to just acknowledge that. No one ever died from having too much information. It’s the misunderstandings that are the problem.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“This is life." he says. "We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of good stuff too.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“A volte la cosa più difficile del lasciar andare via qualcuno è rendersi conto che non avrebbe mai dovuto stare nella nostra vita.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“A volte capitano cose che sfuggono alla nostra comprensione. Di una crudeltà intollerabile. Ma questo non significa che dobbiamo rinchiuderci in un angolo e smettere di lottare.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“You can be my girlfriend, if you want,” Jordan said, winking at her.”
― Lynette Noni, quote from Akarnae
“You are brave and honorable and strong, and you are the only one who can see me as I am.”
― S.J. Kincaid, quote from The Diabolic
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture. Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp. The dying man threw me a wistful look, and nodded. The next moment he had passed away.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Poor Folk
“Look at me, Conan!" She threw wide her arms. "I am Belit, queen of the black coast. Oh, tiger of the North, you are cold as the snowy mountains which bred you. Take me and crush me with your fierce love! Go with me to the ends of the earth and the ends of the sea! I am a queen by fire and steel and slaughter–be thou my king!”
― Robert E. Howard, quote from Conan of Cimmeria
“he gets this glinty Donald Trump look in his eyes, like in the old cartoons where someone gets a greedy brainstorm, blinks, and we hear the sound of a cash register and see the dollar signs in his eyes.”
― Anne Lamott, quote from Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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