60 Quotes by Nancy Werlin

When you’re living your life in endurance mode, you don’t expect anything good to happen. I’m not saying that you don’t dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it’s only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

When you first fall in love, it’s supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That’s how you know it’s real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

It was any outcast’s nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously.

But I know that I’m not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it’s because I was too afraid for too long.

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the “us,” not the “I.” For that is true love, is it not?

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should’ve all just gone on medication.

Fear isn’t actually a bad thing. It’s a primitive instinct that’s your friend. It warms you to pay attention, because you’re in danger. It tells you to do something, to act, to save yourself.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.