Celeste Quotes

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, ~ Celeste Ng

I looked down at my shoes. I hated it when I opened my mouth and my crazy fell out. ~ Stacey Rourke

My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me. ~ Celeste Cooper

You create the quality of your life. ~ Avina Celeste

Call it 'supper'. When you start calling it 'dinner' you raise people's expectations. They'll think there's going to be salad and cloth napkins. If you call it supper no one will bat an eye if you just put out a casserole. Remember the nice one I used to make you kids with the noodles and the tunafish?" -- Celeste Haxton, Thea Gallas's mother ~ Kristen Panzer

If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood. ~ Celeste Ng

Change doesn't just happen," her mother had always said, echoing the Shaker motto. "It has to be planned. ~ Celeste Ng

My daughter is going to work for Jaime Dalton," her mother shouted to Mrs. Perkins next door; there was pride in her voice. "She's going to Miami."

"Have fun, Cass. That Jaime Dalton has a cute ass. Tell him I said that, okay?" Mrs. Perkins was somewhere in her seventies, still very active, with a wicked sense of humor and was man crazy.

"I'll do that, Mrs. P."

"Have a good time, dear, and don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"Thelma, don't scare the girl, you know there isn't much out there you wouldn't do. ~ Mercy Celeste

Ed Lim had gone to four different toy stores searching... he would have bought it for his daughter, whatever the price. ~ Celeste Ng

Stand up for yourself. Do not let anyone, including yourself, limit your experience of life. ~ Avina Celeste

Lydia, five years old, standing on tiptoe to watch vinegar and baking soda foam in the sink. Lydia tugging a heavy book from the shelf, saying, "Show me again, show me another." Lydia, touching the stethoscope, ever so gently, to her mother's heart. Tears blur Marilyn's sight. It had not been science that Lydia had loved ~ Celeste Ng

The only opinion you should care about it yours. Keep your mind open to new possibilities but do not let other people's opinions influence your life decisions. ~ Avina Celeste

Oh dear ... then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings ... before nightfall!' - Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows ~ Rod Tyson

You had a lovely respect, which was respectfully lovely; however, you didn't have a love like married couples are supposed to have, Celeste. ~ Lynetta Halat

Learn to live with high standards for yourself. Don't live for anything less than you deserve. This is your life and you should be living it as such. Live your best life don't settle. ~ Avina Celeste

Before you can begin to change you must accept yourself. Accept your flaws. Accept your strengths. Work with yourself instead of against. Change begins with an internal unification. ~ Avina Celeste

As if they were two halves of a mold. He ~ Celeste Ng

Don't be resentful of others' success, celebrate it. Success is not a limited resource and other people's success doesn't have to hinder yours. ~ Avina Celeste

The best place to discover your light is in the darkness. ~ Avina Celeste

Change will not come from waiting; change comes from action. If you want change, make change. Don't sit around waiting for change to show up in your life. ~ Avina Celeste

What today is normal was once an outlandish statement of self-expression. Normal never created anything new. ~ Avina Celeste

Break the cycle of your damaged life. The only way to make a better life is to change the rhythm through which you live your life. A change in the way you act, the way you think, the way you live is the only way to exist in a better life. ~ Avina Celeste

Any judgment you make on a person is a reflection of you, not them. ~ Avina Celeste

I recommend you just smile and nod ~ Celeste O. Norfleet

I didn't know if it was possible to kick someone hard enough to knock the cocky out of 'em, but for Rowan I was willing to try. ~ Stacey Rourke

In each moment is a choice. You can choose to be good or to be bad. To be active or inactive in the pursuit of dreams. A choice to change your life or to stay where you are. There is always a choice to be made. ~ Avina Celeste

There is a flame, a flame that shines inside of you. Let your flame out. Let your flame illuminate the darkness. There is never true darkness in the following of your dreams. Follow your passion. Set fire to your world with your passion. ~ Avina Celeste

Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to. ~ Celeste Bradley

As long as you have food, water, and shelter, all that matters is what goes on inside your mind. A happy mind makes for a happy life. Find the little pleasant moments that happen in your day and summon all the happiness you can from each and every one. There may be bad days but if you can find a tiny speck of happiness then it is not all for nothing. Live in the moment. Let go of the bad in your past and enjoy every happy moment to the fullest extent. ~ Avina Celeste

I wish you always the joyous summer you deserve and blame you not for fleeing the stark winter you saw in me.
-Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham (in his letter to Lady Alicia) ~ Celeste Bradley

By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales. ~ Celeste Ng

Be true to yourself and don't live your life according to other people's dreams and wants. ~ Ambra Celeste

There is nothing to be found in the past if you only look there with regret. ~ Avina Celeste

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL ~ Almney King

Strength isn't the ability to feel strong, Celeste. It's the ability to overcome weakness. ~ Lynetta Halat

It is an honour to see someone living as their true-self, someone living without fear of other people's opinions. Act as you are, you honour the world with your presence. ~ Avina Celeste

The most important journey in your life will be the journey to find yourself. To find who you are, to find what you love, is the greatest gift in life. Look at yourself, honestly, and find who you really are. To reveal your true self might be scary but the act of learning who you really are is important to make it possible to live your best possible life. ~ Avina Celeste

Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way. ~ Celeste Ng

The truth about heartbreak is that there is no such thing. It's your soul that shatters along with every fiber of your being that screams for another person. ~ B. Celeste

We are all under the same sky, gazing up to the same moon, feeling the same air. We are all existing here together. Exist peacefully. ~ Avina Celeste

Focus on effort not perfection. ~ Avina Celeste

She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway. ~ Celeste Ng

The one person who always needs to believe in you is you. ~ Avina Celeste

When people attempt to morph themselves into someone they are not as a way of conforming to their view of how they should be, they quell the very parts of themselves that makes them who they need to be. If we all fell under the category of normal, how would anyone ever succeed? We would all hover in the same place forever. No one would improve. Everyone would remain idle. We may even all begin to retrogress. I believe that part of being human is to have the ability to change and improve yourself. Be who you need to be, not who you think you should be. ~ Avina Celeste

One day of positive thinking won't change your life. You must actively; every day, be working to change your thoughts into positive ones. The work you put into changing your life is the progress you get out. ~ Avina Celeste

All that happens to us, allows us to grow. Every experience, good or bad, changes you, makes you a better person. ~ Avina Celeste

When nothing seems to be going right, take a break. Clear your head and give yourself some time to rest. Then try again. Rinse and repeat. Over and over again until you see the results you want. Take your time off as a time to change your perspective, as a time to find a solution to your problem. With hard work and dedication, any problem can be solved. Don't expect instant results with no work, expect small successes and many failures that will build up to become your dreams. ~ Avina Celeste

You will find that there is a struggle to find your dreams. The struggle is to find a way past your fear, your discomfort, anything that makes you hold yourself back, in the pursuit of your dreams. There will always be a struggle in life and through that struggle is success. ~ Avina Celeste

Why is there never enough time to pursue my dreams? Yet, I have time to browse memes, laugh at cats doing silly things, and stare off into the distance. My dream is to do what I love and yet I still don't pursue that dream. When we fear failure we allow ourselves to fail every day by not pursuing our dreams. ~ Avina Celeste

Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan. ~ Kiera Cass

Every action creates your legacy. All your good and bad actions will impact the world, the universe even. I choose to create a legacy of love, peace, and prosperity for now and for ever. ~ Avina Celeste

Today is going to be a good day, not because the events that occur will change, but because I will change the way I view this day. ~ Avina Celeste

When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you. ~ Celeste Ng

Perfection only limits us. Our imperfection makes us limitless. We have infinite opportunity to grow and expand, a power which we do not find in perfection. Let the fact that you are limitless empower you, not hold you down. ~ Avina Celeste

At the end of the story of my life, I want to say it was the best book I had ever read. ~ Avina Celeste

Don't ever smile if you don't want to," she said, and Hannah, half-blinded by the spotlight of Lydia's whole attention, nodded. "Remember that. ~ Celeste Ng

I mean, that's the future, isn't it? In the future we'll all be able to look past race. ~ Celeste Ng

Even when all is falling apart there is still hope in the world. Hope, a shining beacon that allows love, kindness, and happiness to pour through to the world. Let us, all together, combine our hope, our hope for a better future, and work toward all of our success. Let us be in unity as we venture into the great unknown. ~ Avina Celeste

Mistakes are meant to be learnt from. They do not define you or your life. They are simply teaching tools to prepare you for the next stage of your life. ~ Avina Celeste

It terrifies you. That you missed out on something. That you gave up something you didn't know you wanted." A sharp, pitying smile pinched the corners of her lips. "What was it? Was it a boy? Was it a vocation? Or was it a whole life? ~ Celeste Ng

For the rest of the summer, and for years after that, they will grope for the words that say what they mean: to Nath, to Hannah, to each other. There is so much more they need to say. ~ Celeste Ng

Let every moment be a chance to ask "Will this action serve me?" Let your actions now benefit your future. ~ Avina Celeste

Sometimes you almost forgot: that you didn't look like everyone else. In homeroom or at the drugstore or at the supermarket, you listened to morning announcements or dropped off a roll of film or picked up a carton of eggs and felt like just another someone in the crowd. Sometimes you didn't think about it at all. And then sometimes you noticed the girl across the aisle watching, the pharmacist watching, the checkout boy watching, and you saw yourself reflected in their stares: incongruous. Catching the eye like a hook. Every time you saw yourself from the outside, the way other people saw you, you remembered all over again. ~ Celeste Ng

We're committed, as she gets older, to teaching her about her birth culture. And of course she already loves the rice. Actually, it was her first solid food. ~ Celeste Ng

You're fucked up. I see that. I can see past it. ~ Mercy Celeste

No one is born a master. Each must grow in their own way. ~ Avina Celeste

After a while, the fear became a habit, too. ~ Celeste Ng

Your power is only limited by your lack of belief in it. Believe you are with power and you will be with power. Believe you are without power and you will be without. ~ Avina Celeste

The past has power only when we give it power. The past is gone, done, never coming back. If you think about it, the past only exists as a figment. The past no longer exists. To stress over past faults, failures, regrets, is to stress over a fearful imagination. The past is now only a creation of your mind. Stop letting your imagination ruin your life. Stop the regrets. Stop the pain. ~ Avina Celeste

Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else. ~ Kiera Cass

When you keep telling yourself that you are going to start in the future you are really telling yourself that you will never start. The future will never come. You have to get past the excuses that you are giving yourself that prevent you from starting today, right now. If you keep letting yourself tell you lies you will never find the success you are searching for. ~ Avina Celeste

I love your eyes. Your mouth. Your body. The way you lose your temper when you're flustered. Your ass is so fucking hot. I love the sounds you make when you fuck me. I love that you fight with me, and I love the way you make up with me. I love you, Tracy. I love you so fucking much. ~ Mercy Celeste

At least I know who I am. What I want, ~ Celeste Ng

Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I'm living not dying. ~ Avina Celeste

In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache. ~ Celeste Ng

To become the best possible you, you must not only work on improving yourself but on improving others as well. You learn to help yourself when you learn how others need help. We are all just human and are more similar to each other than we might admit. Where others struggle you may struggle too and by seeing their problems from a different perspective you can help find the solutions that you both need. ~ Avina Celeste

Bonnie had arranged for the whole family to volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas morning. "I just hate all that crass commercialism of Christmas, don't you?" she'd told Madeline last week, when they'd run into each other in the shops. Madeline had been doing Christmas shopping, and her wrists were looped with dozens of plastic shopping bags. Fred and Chloe were both eating lollipops, their lips a garish red. Meanwhile Bonnie was carrying a tiny bonsai tree in a pot, and Skye was walking along next to her eating a pear. ("A fucking pear," Madeline had told Celeste later. For some reason she couldn't get over the pear.) ~ Liane Moriarty

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home. ~ Celeste Holm

When I look into the eyes of my fear, I don't see an enemy. I see a friend, misguided in their doing but with an intention to protect me. My fear is not my enemy. My fear is my friend. I will honour my fear's presence and advice but I will follow my heart in action. ~ Avina Celeste

James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?" It wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice - "Shirley Byron!" - that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away. ~ Celeste Ng

I am sorry because there will never be enough time, not even in a hundred years from this day would be enough time for us to love ~ Celeste De Blasis

This is our time: our time to dream, our time to love, our time to live. Look around and see the beauty of today. This time will never come again, let's enjoy it. ~ Avina Celeste

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished - and meaning is made - not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through. ~ Celeste Ng

Your top priority should be yourself. If you can't make yourself a priority, you won't able to make other people a priority either. ~ Avina Celeste

If every problem you encountered was easily overcome, would you be the strong person you are today? ~ Avina Celeste

She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her. ~ Celeste Ng

Choose to regret nothing in your life. The only thing you can change is your future. ~ Avina Celeste

President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war," Silvia confirmed. I thought the name to myself. Wallis, Wallis, Wallis. I really wanted to remember this to tell May and Gerad when I went home, but we were learning so much, it was hard to keep it all straight. "What was their motivation for invading? Celeste?" She smiled. "Money. The Americans owed them a lot of money and couldn't pay them back." "Excellent, ~ Kiera Cass

This individual must focus on idealistic callings and activities that uplift others, cultivating faith and spirituality. This is the Mystic, Hermit, Visionary, and Intuitive. ~ Celeste Teal

Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste's money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste's beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive looks they gave to people with missing limbs, and if Madeline ever mentioned Celeste's looks, Celeste responded with something like shame. "Shhh," she'd say, looking around fearfully in case someone overheard. Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny old world. ~ Liane Moriarty

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.

"That's where everything starts," he'd say. "Both heaven and hell. ~ Celeste Albaret

Like small animals sheltered deep in their den ~ Celeste Ng

Expose yourself to new situations not necessarily because you will enjoy them but because you will learn and grow from them. There are always benefits to experiencing in life, the good experiences and the bad. Expose yourself to the world. ~ Avina Celeste

I bet it's easy for you," Celeste said, as she examined her fingers and toes.
"What? Flirting?" "Yes." "Depends. There's flirting," Julie said, jokingly pushing her chest out, "and then there's flirting." She tapped the side of her temple. "It's the second one that's hard because you're putting more of yourself out there. ~ Jessica Park

For moving would never have been enough; he sees that now. It would have been the same anywhere. Children of Mixed Backgrounds Often Struggle to Find Their Place. ~ Celeste Ng

Love was not a drink one tasted and then rejected. Love was not something that could be avoided or arranged. Love was a highwayman, standing by the road of life, just waiting to strike at the reckless and the few. ~ Celeste Bradley

You can't plan the perfect life, you can only live your best life. ~ Avina Celeste

Your true beauty is found in being yourself. ~ Avina Celeste

Everyone belongs. You may think that you are different, that you are excluded, that you are disconnected. Even the fact that you feel alone groups you with a huge part of society. Have no fear that you are alone. Allow yourself to be included. Don't let that critical voice inside your head tell you that you can't join the world around you. You belong if you allow yourself to belong. ~ Avina Celeste

Be proud of what you have achieved don't worry about what you have yet to achieve. ~ Avina Celeste