Gwendolyn Heasley Quotes

Who you are depends on where you are. Why doesn't anyone ever tell you that? That would have been a great piece of advice.

Maybe not all goodbyes are the end - and that's what makes them good.

Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? I learned about it in Science last year… Basically, the butterfly effect is a chaos theory, attributed to a guy named Edward Lorenz. Here's the Clffnotes version: A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and it sets off a tornado in Texas. It means the smallest moments of the past, even the ones that don't have anything to do with us, affect our future, and our future selves

Twenty-first-century technology takes the fate out of life.

Keep following your dreams even if you get off course.

Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants

Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.

Bubby gently grabs me around the waist and pulls me to the ground.
"Touchdown," he whispers.

Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know.

Just so you know," Bubby says before returning to his seat, "if I had been there, I would have carried you to the hospital on my back.

People aren't pianos. You don't hit a certain note and know what you're going to get.

Talking with Sweetbread, I wonder if that's what love is: the ability to go away and to come back again as if nothing has changed, even though everything has changed.

I guess you understand what I mean, Kitsy.
It's okay to just be your best self though. Change doesn't always mean growth.

Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison.

And speaking of hotties, I have to go," I finish and turn to finish my walk toward Bubby.

Yeah, phones are annoying. People expect you to be in constant contact even when you're trying to get away. It's like everywhere you are, you aren't just there; you have to be somewhere else electronically as well.

I thought it was who I was with or where I was that defined me in some way. I realize now that I decide who I am, no matter the company I keep or the place I am.

Happily ever after is not a place: It's a state of being, and you have to work at it every day.

But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever.

The best dreams are the ones we have as children because they're most pure.