Quotes from Tiffanie DeBartolo

And no matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken. It

one thing I've realized is that my life in its entirety is more important than any one aspect of it. And the sad truth is that until I met you I didn't have anything else.

Gravity is Earth's way of keeping our spirits on the ground.

Jacob was the only person I'd ever met, besides myself, who believed music was a cosmic language that spoke directly to our souls—to ease our pain, and to remind us we weren't alone.

He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.

Happiness as a consequence of choice.

Choice betrays character," I said. "That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.

there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

Rewind! Do over! Take it back!

Tacos are very nutritional. They contain all four food groups.

Happiness is elusive, for sure.But lime love, and music, I believe in it because I can feel it.

Never settle for anything less than extraordinary or else, life will suck. … It might suck anyway, but it's better to suck with integrity, right?" -Ione Skye in the indie film Dream For An Insomniac

Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we'd be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart.

I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character.

Jacob laughed along with Chip in a fake, Great Gatsby, old-money sort of voice, obviously mocking my brother.

I've never been happier in my life. But when dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they'll never be good enough, and there's something seriously wrong with that.

That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.

Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman," Kat cried. "Pick her up, Grace! Do it!

I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.

You should do it, Trixie. It's good for your soul. If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things down, you just forget them," he said. "Think of all the stuff you've forgotten over the course of your lifetime." "How can I think of it if I've forgotten it?" "My point exactly.

She smiled at him in the way you would smile at someone if they'd saved your life.

The minute Jacob learned his father's life had become what, in relation to him it had been all along, an apparition, is when I saw desire begins to fade from his eyes. Jacob searched harder than ever for meaning in his being. His body had been orphaned long before, but this time, Thomas Doorley had taken his soul. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.

But when dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they'll never be good enough, and there's something seriously wrong with that.

how to be poignant and moving and clever on the face of that, when all I felt was hollow.