Kris > Kris's Quotes

“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“if you spend your present focusing on your past, you will never change your future.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“THE DASH SADDENS ME. THE SIMPLICITY MISSES SO much. It doesn’t allow for all the downs that bring a person low or the joys that lift them up. All the bends and turns that make up a lifetime are flattened and erased. The dash on a tombstone is wholly inadequate. Everything around it is more remarkable. The name, etched in cursive or dignified fonts. Sometimes a photo is carved into the grey granite, giving life to the dead. Yet the dash, that line that carries the entire sum of a life within it, is unremarkable.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“most endings turned out to be beginnings in disguise.”
― Clare Pooley, The People on Platform 5

“Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“There is freedom in seeing the world as a painting in progress, instead of a place already painted,”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Orc King

“Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I'm starting to think that life is little more than a series of doors; every day we have to choose which ones to open, which to walk through, and which to close behind us, leaving them forever locked.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.”
― Tommy Lasorda

“You’re the only person I know who says the word nice like it’s a bad thing.” “It’s not a bad thing at all, except when it’s all there is. A lot of nice people stop being nice when they don’t get exactly what they want.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“I really am fine,” Humphrey said in the corridor. “I just got old by accident.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“Life is too short, too fragile, too precious to hide in the shadows of what might have been. If continuously looking behind, you risk missing the possibilities that lie ahead.”
― Heather Webber, At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“When someone has always been there for you, it’s easy to assume they always will be. And then, one day, they’re not.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“One advantage women throughout time have had is that the little boy in men always remember a time when women were all-powerful.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“How do you find happiness?” Anna paused, then said, “You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”
― David Baldacci, The Simple Truth

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“Don’t let the best parts of life pass you by because you’re too scared of the unknown.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“And, just like that, a friendship was born, out of tragedy and humour, as they often are.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Sometimes it’s easier to say that you hate what you can’t have rather than admit how badly you want it.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister