Konstantin Karagodin > Konstantin's Quotes

“Lost time is gone forever. Nobody ever catches up.”
― Natalia Sylvester, Chasing the Sun

“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
― Isabel Allende

“Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.”
― Joan Connor, How to Stop Loving Someone

“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“She watched the coals grow cooler and wondered if worlds grew cool as well. If existence faded like heat.”
― Owen Egerton, Everyone Says That at the End of the World

“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“I'm not a monster because I live in a world that gives me impossible choices.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water

“We should all speak like sirens. Use our voices to make a difference, because all of them matter.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Everybody's damaged by something.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”
― Cristina Garcia, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

“You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.”
― Cristina Garcia, Dreaming In Cuban

“Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.”
― Cristina Garcia, Monkey Hunting: A Novel

“He didn't need someone to fix the problem - there was no fixing it. He needed someone to acknowledge his feelings. Accept his pain. Agree that his heart was broken, and that it should be. And that it might stay broken for a long, long time.”
― Julie Lawson Timmer, Five Days Left

“It’s not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here.”
― Julie Lawson Timmer, Mrs. Saint and the Defectives

“The thing about setting your life up so you could be completely alone was that you ended up completely alone.”
― Julie Lawson Timmer, Mrs. Saint and the Defectives

“we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters

“Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book.
“I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters

“Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters

“Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?” “I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective,” said Hanratty. “If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.”
― Betsy Carter, Swim to Me: A Novel

“Trust me, it's the weight of someone else's expectation that's the hardest to lose.”
― Camille Noe Pagan, The Art of Forgetting

“*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*

'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father.”
― Camille Noe Pagan, The Art of Forgetting

“It takes courage to be yourself when everyone expects you to be someone else.”
― Camille Pagán, I'm Fine and Neither Are You

“Sometimes being a great teacher means learning to function in a dysfunctional environment. Save your fighting strength until you have enough experience to be taken seriously, and until you know which battles o fight.”
― Roxanna Elden, See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers

“Sacrificing your own happiness, sleep, and general will to live probably won't benefit your students as much as being a mentally healthy teacher who wants to be in the room with them.”
― Roxanna Elden, See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers

“everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.”
― Julia Fierro, The Gypsy Moth Summer

“It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.”
― Julia Fierro, The Gypsy Moth Summer