Gracie > Gracie's Quotes

“I spend every moment of my life, when I am outside our family home, second-guessing everything that I do. I study people's faces to make sure that they are accepting what I am saying, that they are never confused or offended. I make myself smaller. I shrink away, eyes downcast and hand outstretched. For a crumb of sympathy.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“I think different is good. As long as you're not hurting anyone. We need all kinds of difference in the world.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“I will not let people use my difference as a stick to beat me with. I imagine throwing that stick into the river. Watching it disappear and float away.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“It’s not my brain that makes me break down. It’s the pretending. The hiding. The way the world isn’t built for us.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“It's better to be open about who you really are, what you're really like, and be disliked by a few than it is to hide who you are and be tolerated by many.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“The ocean needs all kinds of fish, Keedie says quietly. Just like the world needs all kinds of minds. Just one would be really dull, wouldn't it?”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“Someone being autistic is the same as being left-handed or color blind.
It means we all experience the world differently.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road... Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Never tell me the odds.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I don’t know who YOU think you’re kidding you Hufflepuff-ass bitch”
― Casey Mcquiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart, There's so much of you.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You are a delinquent and a plague. Please come.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“God, I want to fight everyone who's ever hurt you, but it was me too, wasn't it? All that time.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“If there's any legacy for me on this earth, I want it to be true.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Who names a dog David? He sounds like a tax attorney.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You are the thistle in the tender and sensitive arse crack of my life.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Everything is a story, never finished.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt... it's all part of being in love.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I’m a person who saves things. I’ll hold on forever. *”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Families shrink and expand. All you can really do is be glad for it, glad for each other, for as long as you have each other.”
― jenny han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean