Why is it that even when you’re trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?
Because I know what it’s like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars – or say nothing! I simply can’t bring myself to do anything else.
Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you’re afraid you’re going to miss something. But what you don’t realize is that, by not making a decision, you’re missing it all.
If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.
Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you’re going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.
I’d spent so many years doing things I didn’t really want to do for people I didn’t really like.
I was a lot braver when I was eight.
What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.
Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.
Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let’s Make A Deal .
Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.
Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you’re having fun or not, whether you’re living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.