Andy's Book Quotes

'I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to look at things differently. The world looks different from up here. If you don't believe it, stand up here and try it. All of you. Take turns.'

One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world be different when I woke up. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.

Would it be nice if my loved ones were proud of me?  of course,  but i can't depend on the approval of others alone.  it's never guaranteed.  what matters more to me is finding pride in myself.  - i'm the only one who will be in my life forever.

"Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying?" "It sets a dangerous precedent." "For avoiding pain?" "For avoiding life."

But Grace caught me looking at her and said, as though she could read my mind: 'Stories with happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.'

always put yourself first. sacrifice at your own discretion. -coven rule #1.

I was like a balloon tied to Ella's wrist; If I didn't have her to tell me who I was, remind me why it mattered, I might float away.

this is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.

Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.

I have nothing now but praise for my life, I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more... What I dread is isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.

If someone tell you you're cray enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.

Everyone in this house hides behind closed doors. We build fortresses to bar people from scaling the walls and getting in. But even with the amount of time we spend sheltering ourselves there's no way of concealing our problems.

But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes things better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr.Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.