Janette Rallison Quotes

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

Don't just read words, ' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.