Quotes of: Were Keyword

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

Wish You Were Dead

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

When You Were Here

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

When You Were Here

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

Wish You Were Here

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

The Way of Kings

Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.

We Were Liars

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

We Were Liars

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

We Were Liars

That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.

When You Were Mine

Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

We Were the Mulvaneys

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things. But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

When You Were Pixels

There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.

Wyrd Sisters

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.

When We Were Very Young

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The Yellow Birds

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?

You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last