MY FAVORITE ELOQUENT PHRASES

ya know, quotes.

[myfavorite-eloquence]

“It’s just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.”

From “Sever” by Lauren Destefano

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea."

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are."

From "I am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"She was kind, and she was a great artist; you don't often find that those two go together."

From "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger

[myfavorite-eloquence]

Art is the accomplice of love.

From some fortune cookie

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"Everybody wants to be somebody's someone"

From "Somebody's Someone" by Tyler Lyle

[myfavorite-eloquence]

[Love is] the deadliest of all deadly things: it kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

From "Delirium" by Lauren Oliver

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"The truth is...we don't all turn into the men we had hoped to become."

From "The Lola Quartet" by Emily St John Mandel

[myfavorite-eloquence]

Sometimes, in my darkest hours, I wish I’d never learned what it is to be in love and have that love returned

From “Written in the Stars” by Elton John and Leanne Rimes

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"You better let somebody love you before it's too late"

From "Desperado" by the Eagles aka my mom's favorite song

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"First, we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered."

From "Station Eleven" by Emily St John Mandel

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"Hell is the absence of people you long for.

From "Station Eleven" by Emily St John Mandel

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"She'd been terrified, but also she had gazed at her wide-eyed reflection in the bus-terminal bathroom and thought about how tragic she was, how pretty and how doomed and how alone in the world, thoughts that embarrassed her later when she remembered them."

From "The Lola Quartet" by Emily St John Mandel

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"She's a young, independent bundle of joy"

Said by my friend QT about the girl he likes

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions."

From Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"Once upon a time poetry knew it's place: the schoolroom, the tombstone, and the love letter. But that was before the poetry explosion. Today, the love lyric and the protest song compete and they compete through millions of television sets and stereo records. Poetry knows no bounds. You're liable to encounter it anywhere and on any topic. Worse yet, nobody can tell you exactly what poetry is or isn't.

From Richard Peck

[myfavorite-eloquence]

"I was wondering how she managed to be so energetic these past several days, twirling through the house belting out lyrics and humming refrains, but now I understand. She's as sad as ever. It's just that she sings anyway. "

From "Sever" by Lauren Destefano