Contemporary Quotes

“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine

“Everyone on Earth knows there’s no love as strong as a mother’s love. ”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

“We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.

I will not come out of this with nothing.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“Nice people are vulnerable because they don’t know how to be mean.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times...
...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on...

Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder”
― Elizabeth Funderbirk, Love Torn Asunder

“I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“heir eyes met. They both smiled, aware that they were in public, where anyone could see them on the street and in the window. But the rest of the world did not matter. For that moment, everything else vanished. He was there, she was there, no trouble could touch them.”
― Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax

“Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.”
― Nyrae Dawn, Charade

“He stopped to rest at a cart selling nuts and candy, bought himself some Jelly Belly's, flirted just enought with the Mexican cutie working there to convince her pull out the banana-flavored one. Although he liked his Jelly Belly's mixed up, he didn't like banana, but, since it took too much effort to pull them out himself, he generally tried to talk someone else into doing it. If that didn't work, he just ate 'em.

- Kenny Traveler”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Lady Be Good

“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K

“People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question.”
― Riley Cavanaugh

“Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?”
― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?

“That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.”
― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Love You?

“me estoy muriendo por besarte.”
― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?

“You're doing it wrong."

"Son, I've got a gun to your chest and you're telling me that I'm doing it wrong?"

"Yes"

"How?"

"Closer isn't better." He disarmed her with a swift motion, then offered the weapon back to her. "Further away you are, the less unpredictable I can be."

Della's eyes had opened wide with surprise, but she recovered fast. Took the shotgun back and said, "Okay. Knock again so we can start over.”
― S.E. Jakes, Long Time Gone

“I'm not a bad person for wanting. But I feel like I am.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.”
― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?

“You could launch us to opposite ends of this solar system, and we'd find our way back to each other.”
― Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera, Here's to Us

“Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time --

'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!”
― Vera Nazarian

“I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.”
― Stephanie Witter, Patch Up

“It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.”
― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?

“I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.”
― Jandy Nelson

“We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.”
― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?

“I don't believe in God today.

I don't even believe in people.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“SWAT? For me?" Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under my nose.
"Tactical Support was busy. You got Dennis and Arlo," said Harry, speed-reading the papers he'd snatched from inside my jacket.
Closest his hands had been to my chest in a long time.
"Which one broke my nose?"
"That'd be Dennis.”
― Morana Blue, Gatsby's Smile