Nana Lee > Nana Lee's Quotes

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go whenever you want to go. There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a bit less.
Or perhaps a variation of what you once wanted.

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

But now my mind is changed again. Nothing is impossible - it was there all the time. I just wasn't reaching out far enough that's all.

Nothing is impossible.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least." - Julia Romano”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“MarhOne doesn't like one's job. One endures it until one lands a sugar daddy who will allow one a lifestyle of working out and laser hair removal." - James from More Than This”
― Margo Candela

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Now, if I were there, I would kiss away your tears. But I'm not-so go to sleep.”
― E.L. James

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it.”
― stephanie perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Moon and More

“Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Moon and More

“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“The bitch is very nice. She is as sweet as a Georgia peach. But inside every sweet peach is a strong pit. And this means she won't explain the obvious when a man is disrespectful.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Let's replace "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" with "Do unto others, after they show you they are worthy.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“call me sweetheart. and by that i mean that you should call me .. not that you should call me sweetheart tho you can if you want. call me call me call me.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept, but to find someone who might accept me.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson