“Being on her own had never been a burden. Instead of weighing her down, it buoyed her up; when she was alone, she was lighter. When she was by herself, she felt untethered and free.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me
Tag: quotes
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Quotation Monday #132: Being on her own
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Quotation Monday #131: Doubts
“Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts.”
― Lauren Dane
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Quotation Monday #130: Uncomfortable things
“It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
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Quotation Monday #129: Reading
“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it’s good for me.”
― Nora Roberts
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Quotation Monday #128: Out of control
“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White
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Quotation Monday #127: Depression
“Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
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Quotation Monday #126: the woo
“He was wooing me. And I was letting him woo. I wanted the woo. I deserved the woo. I needed the wow that would surely follow the woo, but for now, the woo? It was whoa.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger
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Quotation Monday #125: Kissing
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
― Ingrid Bergman
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Quotation Monday #124: Question
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight