37 Quotes by Elana K. Arnold

Perhaps the key to being content, even without a past, is to keep your eyes firmly on the present moment, and looking no further than what was most probably around just the very next bend – tonight, a fire – and not anticipating beyond that, or allowing oneself to cast backward, into the great black void of before.

Dusk was the most colorful hour, with the horizon set on fire by the breath of the yawning sun.

You can’t make people love you. Love isn’t something you earn, or something you deserve. Love just is. Or it isn’t. Anyway, there are more important things than love. Like service. Being of service. With love, you’re waiting around for someone to give it to you. But service, that’s something you give. And you don’t have to give it just to people you love. It doesn’t matter who you serve. It’s the serving that matters.

I made you beautiful,” Emory said again, again. “You keep saying that,” Ama answered. “But I did not ask for your beauty. I made beauty all on my own. I did not need you then.

A brain will lie to the body, even when the body is the brain’s only hope.

Have you ever had the feeling that you aren’t the main character in the story of your life? That you fill a more minor role- supporting cast, maybe, comic relief, or even antagonist.

It’s not that we need more wolf hunters,” you say. “It’s that we need men to stop becoming wolves.

I’ll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There’s just me and this one beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now.

Maybe they’re not “real” orgasms, since they’re always when I’m alone. It’s like that question: If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Probably solo orgasms don’t count if a boy isn’t there to witness them. To cause them.