This Life Quotes

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

The person you became with her is worth being.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

You are always a little bit wrong

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.