When you’re not around me it feels like I’m just wasting time. When you’re here it’s like … the whole world is coloured just that little bit brighter. I want to feel your skin against mine. I want to see your smile and hear that laugh of yours when you forget yourself and just let it burst straight out of you … I want to make you happy … I want to wake up every morning beside you.
– from The Giver of Stars book by Jojo Moyes
Category: Quotes
Grind and sweat, toil and bleed …
Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
We must get our hearts broken …
We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
– from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Sin is a thing that writes …
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
You are what you consume, and …
You are what you consume, and that applies just as much to information as to nutrition.
– from Building a Second Brain book by Tiago Forte
Much of life is timing and …
Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.
– from An American Marriage book by Tayari Jones
Sometimes in order to feel better …
Sometimes in order to feel better, you need a mirror held up to you, and not the mirror that makes you look pretty.
– from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb
Some people don’t ask for what …
Some people don’t ask for what they need. Some people are like religious children that way, mistaking suffering with goodness.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
That’s the thing about women. There’s …
That’s the thing about women. There’s no good way to be one. Wear your emotions on your sleeve and you’re hysterical. Keep them tucked away where your boyfriend doesn’t have to tend to them and you’re a heartless bitch.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
You should know that the only …
You should know that the only safe place on the planet is your grave. Nothing happens there. There is no safety in life itself.
– from Death; An Inside Story book by Sadhguru