Hasti > Hasti's Quotes

“It’s not about the ride. It’s about who is in the pillion seat.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“Everyday you came to my house. You were a friend to my son. You made my daughter smile. You said your jokes and made me laugh. You sat at our table and ate our food. And always you were fixing things in the house. You helped us. We helped you. That's family. And then you just left. No explanation. No goodbye. Not even a phone call to let us know you weren't dead.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“From the first day we met, I knew I needed you in my life. You took the chaos and made it calm. You lifted my heart with your smile and awed me with your brilliant mind. I kept every secret valentine, every scribbled note, your stuffed rabbit, and the answer to every math question I gave you. I hoped one day to be the kind of man you could love, a man who would hold and cherish you, a man worthy of you, and who would protect you with the sword you are going to allow him to have at our wedding.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“Daisy nibbled the jalebi. Fragrant with rose water and spices and dripping with heavy, sweet syrup, the spiral-shaped orange treats were her favorite Indian dessert.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“I felt sick at the thought that I'd hurt you, and I was ashamed I'd been in jail. You were smart, beautiful, and ambitious and you had your whole life ahead of you---an incredible future with an amazing career and a partner who could give you the world. And I was everything my dad had said I was. No direction. No motivation. No prospects. That night I got a taste of my future, and I didn't want you in it. I didn't want to drag you down. I thought it was better if I left with you hating me than if I came to say goodbye."
Tears welled up in her eyes as she relived the emotions of that night, knowing now that he was nothing like her mother, that he'd left because he'd thought he wasn't good enough and not because she wasn't good enough for him.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“Sydney.” Theo is grinning as he calls my attention back to him, though his eyes are somber. “I need you to channel the confidence of a mediocre white man. I’ll give you mine. We’ll figure it out because we don’t have any other choice.”
― Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching

“They can break, but they can't erase," Gracie says. "They can build but they can't bury us.”
― Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching

“I know what these people value in a woman. Fragility is currency, but I’m not pale enough to be permitted too much delicacy.”
― Talia Hibbert, Guarding Temptation

“No one should need a diagnosis in order to be compassionate to themself.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“All I can do is go forward, and to do that, I must stop chasing perfection. It doesn't exist. I can never please everyone. It's hard enough just pleasing myself. Instead, I must focus on giving what I have, not what people want, because that is all I can give.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“The thing with feelings is they pass. Hearts aren’t designed to feel anything too intensely for too long, be it joy, sorrow, or anger. Everything passes in time. All colors fade.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“The only good thing this broken heart of mine can feel is love for you.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean we need to throw it away.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“He matters more to me than the voices in my head.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“I see, and for the first time in my adult life, I don’t care that I’m making a scene. I haven’t hurt anyone. I shouldn’t be ashamed. I shouldn’t need to apologize. This is me.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“This yearning for her, this craving, it's sunk so deep into me that it's part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He's crazy about this one girl.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“Anna’s pain is real. I can’t brush it aside just because I don’t understand it. I can’t place judgment on it. Pain is pain.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“Perhaps this is what I’ve always needed without really knowing it, to love myself without shame and without reservation.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“That’s when I realize that I trust him. Over the past weeks, he’s proven time and again that he respects me, that he won’t hurt me. I can tell him things. Not because he doesn’t matter. But because he is kind.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I told you before, that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you failed at all, Eve. It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces, and blaming yourself when your hands bleed.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“It sounds like your dream broke, and you've been picking up shattered pieces and blaming yourself when your hands bleed.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“What if I’d killed somebody?”
“I wouldn’t be surprised, and I would visit you in prison if necessary.”
She gasped, all feigned outrage. “You wouldn’t offer to help me hide the body?”
Jacob’s lips quirked without permission. “You’ve been here quite a while Sunshine, and there’s no police sniffing around, so I imagine you hid it just fine yourself.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“No. You are divine. You are impossible to get enough of. Perhaps some people would disagree, but those people don’t especially matter, because you’re mine.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Jasmine tried not to take it personally, but taking things personally was one of her greatest skills.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“Jasmine did trust easily, and look where it had gotten her. She could see now it was a direct response to feeling ignored and misunderstood by her parents and siblings. It was why she’d readily given her heart to every semi-attractive man who’d even shown her an ounce of attention. She sought her parents’ love by securing romantic relationships, because in her family, that was what made you a success. But that wasn’t healthy. And trust wasn’t meant to be given in one lump sum. It was earned, little by little.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola