89 Quotes by Sarah Jio

fate has a way of bringing you back when it's time to come back.

For dinner, Victor makes roast chicken, potatoes, and a simple but elegant mâche salad, all with the ingredients we picked up at a market earlier."The chicken," I say, after taking a bite, "is so good.""Just sea salt, olive oil, garlic, and a little rosemary," he says. "People overcomplicate chicken. That's really all you need.

My roommate, Liesel, doesn't understand my fascination with occupied Paris. 'There'll never be another Hitler again,' she said, 'so what's the point?' But I don't see it that way.""That may be true," I reply, "but even if we think that something like that could never happen again, we don't know it. Besides, I'm with you. I think there's value in learning from the past.

A home is a refuge from the world, a place of safety.

We want the kind of love that sells movie tickets.

You know, I've thought an awful lot about this, and I think that people are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd hardly know it. They blend in, like a speck on a canvas. But others blaze with such an intensity, they light up the sky. You can't help but notice them, marvel at them. Those are the ones that never last long. They can't. They use up all their energy quickly.

I've had so much time to think down here, and I want to say that I think that the most important thing in life are thankfulness, forgiveness, and love. Mama taught me to always be thankful. And when you say thank you it makes other people feel happy. And forgiveness, because, life is too short to be cross. It's also not fun. And, last but not least, love- because when you have love in your heart, nothing and no one can take it away from you.

She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dressing table. "They'll never keep," I said. "They're [hibiscus] a terrible cutting flower. They'll wilt by morning.""I know," she said." But don't they look so pretty right now, just as they are?"I nodded. I wished I could see the beauty in the moment the way Kitty did. It was a gift.

I wonder if there is a dark side to every great love story. With great love comes great hurt. I wonder if it is inevitable.