I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
But like everything else, love changed.
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.
It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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