Emery Lord Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Emery Lord
Emery Lord Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone.
God," he mutters. "Most girls love it when I write them a song."
"Well, I'm not most girls," I snap at him
"Well, I'm not most girls," I snap at him
I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81
Do you want me to beg you? Do you want me to say please? Then this song is the rest of my pride, girl. This song is me down on my knees.
Younger girls stand with their moms alongside countless girls our age in matching outfits - blazers and horseshoe necklaces and ballet flats.
Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.
He grinned. "I knew you loved me, Tessa."
Tessa's cheeks reddened. "One more word, and I WILL have Morgan give you the consent lecture.
Tessa's cheeks reddened. "One more word, and I WILL have Morgan give you the consent lecture.
I am honestly trying to live this life while I can. The emotion swells around me, into this huge, humid feeling that I must be doing something right.
I like your orange dog." Nadia taps her finger near the fox I'm trying to draw.
I lean against my hand to hide my smile. "Thanks.
I lean against my hand to hide my smile. "Thanks.
After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It's not the type of love that ends.
It's not the type of love that ends.
But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.
Okay," he said, leaning closer to me. "I have a proposition for you." Dear God, let it be marriage, I thought.
I wanted to live in Lucy and Ricky's world, where the blunders of life were righted in one neat half hour. They made it look easy.
Last year, they curled their inky arms around me until my Technicolor world became crackling gray static. Until I felt nothing but blankness.
The glow of my birthday candles and the fairy lights would have been more than enough. But Jonah Daniels? He lit up my whole world.
You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.
Mmmph.' I grunt this to myself in the helpless way you do when something is just so damn delicious. Yeah, I made it, but...what can I say? I'm good.
If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it.
A nightmare, a memory. A thing can be both.
I stare up at the ceiling. White, white, white. The emptiness of it aches.
I stare up at the ceiling. White, white, white. The emptiness of it aches.
After all, the night sky is a mess of stars -- a million fireflies crammed into infinity. But the mess becomes a map once you know how to use it.
I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity
A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.
I swear his looks are pure Darwinism. If he wasn't so cute, someone would have killed him for being annoying by now.
It's like being at an animal shelter, where I want to be the one the most skittish dog takes a liking to.
His eyes are somewhere between gray and blue, and his hair is somewhere between brown and blond, and I am somewhere between hostile and attracted.
Should have, should have, should have. I'm sick of those words biting at my ankles no matter where I walk.
I don't remember that." He shook his head. "Of course you don't. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading.
Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself.
Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.
In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.
I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.