Amy Harmon quotes:

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  • I love you, Fern.""You do?" Fern squealedI do. It doesn't get better than Fern Taylor.""It doesn't?" Fern squeaked."It doesn't." Ambrose couldn't help laughing at her incredulous little face."

  • Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

  • Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.

  • Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

  • There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing

  • I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.

  • He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn't believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought he could break her heart and take a kiss too.

  • I need you, Fern. I'm not going to lie. I need you. But I don't need you the same way Bailey did. I need you because it hurts when we're apart. I need you because you make me hopeful. You make me happy.

  • Everybody is a main character to someone...

  • But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

  • Everybody is a main character to someone

  • Regret is just life's aftertaste.

  • Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

  • This is just me. Get used to it.

  • Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

  • I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

  • and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

  • I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

  • What softened your heart?" I asked softly."Good music and a friend."I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power""So does friendship," he supplied frankly.

  • True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

  • You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldnâ??t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

  • The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

  • Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

  • News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!""You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it.

  • If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?

  • Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail

  • Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

  • There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.

  • Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

  • Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.

  • But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.

  • It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

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