F. A. Harper Quotes

Sometimes the universe conspires to give you what you really want, Liam. And it’s your job to let it.

It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces.

Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while.

Life is naught but battles big and small, and most of them unexpected.

Aye, well, it’s like a battle. Ya lay yer plans, then when they go wrong, ya make things up as ya go.

Funny how being a grown-up didn’t make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your own or someone else’s mother, it was like having the cavalry arrive.

Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.

All clichés aside, sometimes a girl just needed to cry in the rain.

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says.""Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark.""But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.

Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference.

Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above

Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.

You know you've found love when they have: a smile that melts you, an innocence that soothes, a presences that glows and a trust in them that grows. - For Lydia

We are going to have that thing everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...Here's to endless stargazing.

We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Shit. Shit. Shit. He’d known he couldn’t save her. He’d known he was too far away. Knowing didn’t prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.

I’m almost used to you showing up without shoes, but where the hell are your pants?

Wait until you meet my family. At Thanksgiving, we kill everything we can find, put it into a pot, and call it 'holiday gumbo'.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

He avoided small talk at the best of times and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.

There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.

You’re the angel that my demons beg to make fall. The pureness and light that my darkness wants to extinguish.

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

She wanted him to leave town with a smile on his face. She wanted to be memorable.

I'm going to find ways to make you blush, just so I can enjoy the journey.

Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.

Be careful. He uses that line on all the girls.

I held it together for the rest of the drive home but as soon as Kelsey dropped me off I flopped face down on the couch and sobbed like a reality TV star on confessional day.

If one is going to spend her afternoon singing hymns to the great porcelain goddess, she might as well do it in a really plush ladies room. Stupid fear of public speaking.

Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.

I’m glad I married you too, Harper, ” I whispered into her hair, “because I’m in love with you.” But she didn’t hear, gone into a dream.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.

Life every day is a room full of doors.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.