Kalah > Kalah's Quotes

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
― Philip K. Dick

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street

“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“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 suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One

“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly

“I wouldn't mind the early autumn
if you came home today
I'd tell you how much I miss you
and know I'd be okay.

It's funny how we never know
exactly how our life will go
It's funny how a dream can fade
with the break of day.

Time can't erase the memory
and time can't bring you home
Last Summer was a part of me
and now a part is gone.

—Margaret”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer with Maizon

“People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One

“Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Between Madison and Palmetto

“You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?

—D”
― Jacqueline Woodson, After Tupac and D Foster

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill

“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly

“When there are many worlds
you can choose the one
you walk into each day.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them."

—Staggerlee”
― Jacqueline Woodson, The House You Pass on the Way

“Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, After Tupac and D Foster

“You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?”
― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One

“No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion

“Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

“This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Each Kindness

“That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill

“Somewhere in my brain
each laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill

“What am I supposed to do?
I don't know
so I say the words I would want to hear.
'Go, if you have to.”
― Sarah Crossan, One