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Quotes About Acceptance

What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in my genes. Like self raising flour. i'm going to pouf." "thats going to work out well for me," Cal said. "because i'm going to grow up to be one of those horny old men who chases chubby old ladies around the couch.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Dead man, you are dead wrong. The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I could solve all the Diophantine equations, extend Newton's work on infinite series, complete Euler's analysis of prime numbers, and it wouldn't matter." She looked at Isabelle. "Ella is the beauty. You and I are the ugly stepsisters. And so the world reduces us, all three of us, to our lowest common denominator.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insane. Hey, let's have a crepe.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
What's done is done. Whether to you, or by you, and you cannot change it. But what's not done is not done. And there, both hope and hazard lie.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I think we all make mistakes. What matters is that we don't let our mistakes make us.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It's good that you still cry," Isabelle whispered to her. "It's when you stop crying that you're lost.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
We must not run from our unhappiness. We must listen to it. It has much to tell us.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sometimes the things that make us all wrong is the thing that make us perfect
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Death wounds only is you let her.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
But what if you don't like your own story. What then?
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Compared to me, everyone has normal relationships.' Sera laughed. 'Right. Especially me. I'm the queen of normal relationships. The merman I love is about to marry someone else. We have to pretend to hate each other. And his future wife is trying to kill me. Totally normal.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
We've made our bed and we must lie in it.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
she knew that, like her, I saw the world as it is, not as I would have it be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Now, now, Chapeau. You mustn't overreact," the Beast said. "All messes, accidents, and catastrophes are to be blithely laughed off." He looked pointedly at Belle. "Or so I'm told.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
A veces es más fácil decir que odias lo que no tienes que reconocer cuánto lo quieres.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Es bueno que todavía llores. Cuando dejas de llorar es cuando estás perdida.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
What can I say? I merely wish to smoke. Sparky can forgive that. You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
~ Jennifer Donnelly