Lighthearted Quotes

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Erik Pevernagie
“The fresh “breeze of freedom” that so many people promise lightheartedly, so often, remains void in the hot desert of yearning expectations. Pretending that everything is just a deplorable misunderstanding, may soothe their conscience and let them walk out easily on their pledge. (“Breeze of freedom)”
Erik Pevernagie

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Travis Baldree
“See you in the story past the story.”
Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

Miranda Liasson
“He wasn’t looking for a soulmate. That would require having a soul to share, and he’d sold his off long ago”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Miranda Liasson
“What the hell are you doing with my underwear?”
He kept his response flippant. “I don’t have this color in my collection.”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Miranda Liasson
“Because she did love him, and not from afar, not with the moony dreaminess she’d used as a crutch for so many years, but with a deep, aching tenderness she felt might just kill her.”
Miranda Liasson, This Love of Mine

Miranda Liasson
“They’d used sex instead of communication in the past, and it had turned out disastrously.”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Miranda Liasson
“Do you picture long nights making love by the fire and talking about everything and anything under the sun, and do you have the feeling that of anyone in the world, he just gets you? Like no other person in the world ever can?”
Miranda Liasson, This Love of Mine

Miranda Liasson
“He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Miranda Liasson
“How was it that the one man who could take their company down appeared to be the only one who believed in her?”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Miranda Liasson
“It’s not over, Maddie. It’s still not over between us. We need to talk.”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Miranda Liasson
“She’d vowed to be braver and take more risks, but this seemed out of her league. Because sometimes what you wanted the most was the one thing you were most afraid to get.”
Miranda Liasson

Miranda Liasson
“Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop.”
Miranda Liasson

Miranda Liasson
“Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.”
Miranda Liasson, Heart and Sole

Diane Claire Benant
“Toni Morrison said that if you can't find the book you want to read, write it. So I did! It's high time to give our heroines a different kind of happy ending.”
Diane Claire Benant, Just Jenna: How hard can it be to last a week without a man?

D.T. Henderson
“You know I can't stand you, right?" Jovian told her with a sag of her shoulders in defeat.

Terra snapped her fingers. "Well, you can't sit me either.”
Destiny Henderson, Moody: A Collection of Short Stories

Nitya Prakash
“The most important conversations in a relationship can be seemingly mundane and lighthearted. That is where you learn if you can trust your partner with who you really are. That is where you find out if they accept you as you are.”
Nitya Prakash

Kristian Ventura
“He decided to spend his time dancing around the block. In this sequence of joy, every material object to him had the same value. He’d walk around knocking things over because they didn’t matter. They were just things. His outlook and the universe were always bigger. There was no stopping a person who minimized what ought to be minimized. Charlie couldn’t be fooled by constructs. There was something precious about the hands that held a glass ornament the same way they held a boulder. Something rare and admirable in its innocence and fearlessness.”
Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

Grace Gotesky
“It will not work on every asshole, as every asshole is unique and capable of assholery we can only dream of.”
Grace Gotesky, How to Professionally Deal with Assholes

Lucy  Carter
“Wait,” one of the apes objected, “we have never driven a car! What if we destroy everything? The humans might use our lack of experience to add stronger restrictions to apes, and we might look incapable.”

“Well,” another member insisted, “that would be absurd. It’s not our fault that we are inexperienced! The humans were the ones who did not give us access to the experience we need! It’s in their nature: discrimination. I mean, they even restricted each other from having education, voting, and career rights!”
Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“Man cannot live on music; his soul craves for puddings.”
Charles Garvice, Only a Girl’s Love: The Classic 1901 Romance

“That's just like you, man... But wait, you're keeping a bunch of old plastic bags around? Aren't you getting a little too engrossed in the domestic life? When I saw you scanning grocery store ads on your phone, I thought you were somebody's housewife.”
Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 2

“Now now, Itsuki's teasing comes from a place of love," Yuuta jested. "Probably. I think.”
Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 4

“Fujimiya will probably forgive you eventually, but you'd better figure out where the line is before you cross it."

"Yeah, sure, no problem. I know exactly where the line is."
[...]
Itsuki's knack at dancing around that line was impressive and a singular point of irritation in Amane's life.”
Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 4