EvaHarmoni – forever winter notes

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations (Other Books)

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the books I read. These are quotes from books which I only have very little highlights. If I have highlighted enough, I will create a separate blog post for each book (you can find them here)

“I did love him, but not so much that I’d give up my plan.”

“I let it come, let it go. This was enough, I thought. This closeness. I didn’t dare want anything more.”

—— The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

“If she wants to keep a man forever, she has to act like she could get over him in a day.”

—— Verity by Colleen Hoover

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | Our Numbered Days Poems by Neil Hilborn

“The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you.”

“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”

“maybe things do happen for a reason but that reason is stupid.”

“You are like a comet: every so often you come around to fuck up my shit.”

“I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren’t just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | Help Me!: One Woman’s Quest to Find Out if Self-Help Really Can Change Her Life by Marianne Power

“I’m unhappy all the time and I don’t know why.”

“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” by Susan Jeffers.

“I wasn’t just going to read self-help, I was going to DO self-help.”

“If we sit around waiting for the day that we feel brave enough to do the things we want to do, we’ll never do anything.”

“We should be scared every day because that’s a sign that we’re pushing ourselves and moving forwards.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold

“Everyone else is blind and deaf when it comes to the stuff in your head.”

“Imagine if I described my home in five detailed pages.”

“You can draw a picture from that level of detail that will be very close to what I have in my head.”

“When you know where you’re going, you can make decisions and apply them.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

“Whatever he did to Rachel, at least he loves her enough to regret it.”

“Girls like Rachel aren’t available for long. If she’s even available.”

“It’s only a part-time job, but it gets my foot in the door.”

““I don’t care if you drink my juice, Tate.” Oh, wow.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao

“It’s crazy to think there was a time before we knew each other.”

“I miss knowing he would always answer me if I called.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | The Light We Lost Jill Santopolo

“There’s something about death that makes people want to live.”

“Would I feel like my time here was well spent?”

“Drunk and tired and finally in your arms,”

“You’re passionate, you know what you want, you work harder than anyone.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

“To have wasted so much of our lives by not really living them makes me feel so sad.”

“She wonders about that a lot: why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.”

“Life makes other plans when people forget to live.”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas

“She looks at me like she’s my mom and wants to fix everything.”

“I feel my ex’s presence in the theater, and the old memories surface, reminding me of how helpless I let him make me feel at one time.”

“Time passes by you like a bullet, and fear gives you the excuses you’re craving to not do the things you know you should. Don’t doubt yourself, don’t second-guess, don’t let fear hold you back, don’t be lazy, and don’t base your decisions on how happy it will make others. Just go for it, okay?”

Notes, Quotes, Highlights, Annotations | His and Hers by Alice Feeney

“I left home when I was sixteen because it felt like I had to.”

“It’s easier to blame the miles for the distance that exists between some parents and their children, but when you bend the truth too far it tends to break.”

“When you spend too long imagining the worst you can make it come true.”

“The only people with no regrets are liars.”

“More like a sinner trying to make up for her wickedness. Sometimes we all do good things because we feel bad.”

“She had a reputation for looking good but being bad; beautiful people do tend to get away with far more than the rest of us.”