Elena Mendoza Quotes

Falling in love is about hormones and pheromones and powerful emotions that overwhelm our better judgement. Staying in love requires time and effort and knowledge and trust that has to be earned over the course of lifetimes. Falling in love is the illusion. Staying in love is the real miracle. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

We make choices. We make bad choices. But we still deserve the right to choose. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Please. I want to get better; I want to be better."
"Then you're going to have to do it on your own. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Up until that point everyone who gets hurt winds up fine. There's not actual loss. And then Voldemort kills Cedric Diggory and suddenly everything becomes real. We have to face the possibility that we won't all live long enough to lose our hair or become those crotchety old folks who yell at dumb kids like us. Good people die and bad people don't always get what they deserve. Death stops being this abstract concept that happens to other people, and becomes something that could happen to the people we love. Or even to us. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

What happens if the world ends?" Freddie said.
"Maybe it already has," I said, "and this is it. Now we have the opportunity to start over and try to do better this time around. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

I don't think I'm as strong as you think I am."
"And I think you're stronger than you believe. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

It's easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story worth knowing and forget that every person we encounter is living their own, is the center of their own universe. But that's the nature of the human experience. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

What if you're wrong? What if I screw up and the world burns?"
Fadil shrugged. "Then I'll buy marshmallows and we'll watch it burn together. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

No one is perfect, no one is flawless, and loving someone means admitting they have faults. It means loving them, not in spite of those flaws, but because of them. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Damon, leather and silk and fine chiseled features. Mercurial and devastating. ~ L.J.Smith

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell. ~ Elena Ferrante

They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated. ~ Elena Ferrante

Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on.
She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?"
"Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know. ~ Nalini Singh

Up or down, it seemed to us that we were always going toward something terrible that had existed before us yet had always been waiting for us, just for us. When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this is the night. ~ Elena Ferrante

She bit delicately down on a breadstick, holding it between her teeth..
"Mind if I have a Bite"
Shock snapped her eyes wide open and froze her breath..dark eyes dominating her field of vision, a whiff of some kind of calogne in her nostrils, two long fingers tilting her chin up. Damon leaned in, and neatly and precisely, bit off the other end of the bread stick. ~ L.J.Smith

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand. ~ Elena Ferrante

We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love. ~ Maria Elena

Full belly, happy heart, was the favorite saying of Padre Mendoza, who had been obsessed with good nutrition ever since he'd heard of sailors suffering from scurvy when a lemon could have prevented their agony. ~ Isabel Allende

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are. ~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others. ~ Elena Ferrante

I keep everything fans give me, if I can, but I do worry about when I run out of room in my house! ~ Elena Roger

...a woman without love for her origins is lost. ~ Elena Ferrante

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. ~ Elena Kagan

I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again. ~ Elena Ferrante

I can hypnotize rabbits. ~ Elena Anaya

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it. ~ Elena Anaya

I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times ... in a way that's completely consistent with ... the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in. ~ Elena Kagan

The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect. ~ Elena Ferrante

He has a fascination with mortals.
Raphael had said that to her before she'd woken with wings of midnight and dawn.
"Why are you starting at me, Ellie?" Illium said without taking his eyes from the blade dancing around his fingers.
The words were instinctive, something she might as easily have said to rib Ransom. "You're so pretty, it's difficult to resist."
A flashing grin, a hint of that aristocratic English accent in his response. "It's hard to be me, it's true.
~ Nalini Singh

But just as you become impregnated with someone, even after that someone is gone, that is how Lilus remained ~ Elena Poniatowska

Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land. We are unmoored and disconnected, like these poplar seeds blown into the crevices of the buildings, into the corners of the world. ~ Elena Gorokhova

Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured. But ~ Elena Ferrante

Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. "If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look at you as someone who's afraid."

"That's because every time you look at me, I'm looking right back, and the only time I'm not afraid, is when I see you. And I do see you, Elena. I see everything you've been through, from so young – how you struggled through it; how you never let it destroy your hope and faith – and I'm afraid of nothing."

(Karl and Elena) ~ Dianna Hardy

I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality. ~ Elena Ferrante

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~ Elena Ristic

I would like to play Broadway! ~ Elena Roger

There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. ~ Elena Kagan

I don't think George Lucas would want you to do this," her mom said. "I didn't know you knew who George Lucas was." "Please. I was watching Star Wars movies before you were born. Your dad and I saw Empire Strikes Back five times in the theater." "Lucky," Elena said. "George Lucas is a father of daughters," her mother said. "He wouldn't want young girls freezing to death to prove their loyalty." "This isn't about George Lucas," Elena said. "He isn't even that involved in the sequels." "Come home," her mom said. "We'll watch Empire Strikes Back and I'll make hot cocoa." "I can't," Elena said. "I'll lose my place in line." "I think it will still be there for you in the morning." "Goodnight, Mom. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity. ~ Elena Ferrante

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder. ~ Elena Ferrante

They were complicated years. The order of the world in which we had grown up was dissolving. The old skills resulting from long study and knowledge of the correct political line suddenly seemed senseless. Anarchist, Marxist, Gramscian, Communist, Leninist, Trotskyite, Maoist, worker were quickly becoming obsolete labels or, worse, a mark of brutality. The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere. Meanwhile, by means legal and illegal, all the accounts that remained open in the state and in the revolutionary organizations were being closed with a heavy hand. One might easily end up murdered or in jail, and among the common people a stampede had begun. ~ Elena Ferrante

A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein. ~ Elena Ferrante

I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like an old lady for various reasons. I have a yearning to live out my childhood and teenage years and have a bit more fun than I actually did. ~ Elena Tonra