Jennifer E. Smith Quotes
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore
And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.
And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.
She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.
There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof-Ellie O'Neill, This is What Happy Looks Like
We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.
Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.
Suddenly, it seemed there were about a million times he was supposed to have kissed her, even without the benefit of a script, even without any sort of direction.
There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.
That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.
they'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped their hands over their eyes as if staring into the sun.
As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.
Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?
She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.
He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah, " he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.
Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?
People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy, ” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.
Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.
But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams.
There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.
Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.
It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.
The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.
There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.
Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.
and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.
...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.
Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.
