Susane Colasanti Quotes

You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.

I'm not sure if our friendship is strong enough to survive into next year when we’re away at college. But. We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected. So I have to hope for us. All I can do is hope.

I'm sorry.' Congratulations.' Can you tell me why you're so upset?' The thing is, Tobey should get this. I mean, he's gotten everything else about me. And I don't want to explain it all. So much of it has to do with jealousy, and I know it's stupid to be mad at him because he had a life before me. But I am anyway.

Happiness is not limited. There’s enough for everyone.

I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.

All I can do is hope.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

Its so weird how connecting with someone in a different setting can bring out this whole other side of them. Like how certain places inspire us to act in ways we normally wouldn't.

Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that’s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.

Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life.

I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.

We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.

No one can save me except myself.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there.

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.

Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

Do you believe in fate?" "I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?

Tobey puts the CD on. Then he comes over and hugs me. I lean my head on his chest. 'I want to know everything about you,' he whispers.

Maybe it's just hart to see what's right in front of you while you're frantically searching for it.

If I’d stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don’t think I would have survived high school.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.

For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me- I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.

But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.

Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.

Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.

When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.

You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.

Maybe but... if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.

But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?

He has to wair for another load of laundry to get done. So I wait with him. I lean back against the couch, sitting really low the way I like. I scrunch over and put my head on his shoulder. We sit like that for a long time. Watching other people's laundry dry. <3

It's weird how time can change something you thought would always stay the same.

But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.

It's up to me to create the life I want.

It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.

All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.