K-Girl Quotes

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

I'm always losing things.

Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.

Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

She woke up thin. She loved it when that happened.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

In the end we have one choice: to suffer well or suffer badly, to reach for or to reject that quality which is termed, equally, by both religious and secular, grace.

There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

...There is a duty of solidarity among all us impossible, near-invisible people: a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.

In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.

He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are.

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.

I'd crossed a border—Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her.

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless.

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?

From the bow of the canoe she asked, "Do you know a rain dance?""First I need a virgin.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear

One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about - the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact.

People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, though. You get so used to being one person, it's weird when you wake up and everything is different.

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.