Who Do You Love Quotes
"Blood that should have flowed smoothly from my heart to my lungs moved instead in a sluggish trickle—a lazy schoolkid who’d overslept and couldn’t be bothered to run for the bus."
"Failure to thrive was what they wrote on my charts, and my mother took it like a straight-A student receiving her first failing grade."
"I promise I won’t die was the obvious choice... but I wasn’t sure I could promise that."
"Take that stupid thing off. Like that’s going to help anything."
"If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride."
"When Rachel was born it was a difficult time for our family."
"You never forget how it feels to see your child like that."
"I don’t know why God chose for our daughter to be sick and to struggle, to have a condition she’ll be dealing with all her life, but I think it’s made Rachel not just beautiful but strong, and appreciative of every day that’s been given to her."
"I know it’s not for us to question God. And I know that every day with Rachel has been a gift, and I pray that we all have many, many more."
"Charm is deceptive and beauty short-lived, but a woman loyal to God has truly earned praise."
"I don’t know if I believe in God. But I do believe in people being good to each other."
"If you want to hit someone or you want to throw something, I want you to run first."
"Parents aren’t perfect. I wasn’t, and your mother isn’t, and if you have children you probably won’t be, either."
"You make me proud," she said, which, as far as I was concerned, was a lot better than I love you.
"I’m not sure I do, either," she said. "But I do believe in people being good to each other."
"That’s a man’s job. A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools."
"It’s yours, if you want it," he said to Andy, pointing at the photo album.
"Your daddy was probably the best high school basketball player in the Catholic League. Maybe even the best in the city."
"Do you have any hobbies outside of construction?" "I run," said Andy. "I’m going to go to the Olympics one day."
"You don’t ever just get to be... Normal, I guess. Just a normal person where people look at you and they know what you are."
"Your first love is important. It’s part of your story. The story you’ll tell yourself, the one you’ll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life."
"I’m the girl who’s had so many operations that the anesthesiologist sends me a birthday card."
"If you want to be independent and make your own choices, then you can pay your way through college, too."
"You always have to decide—who you’re going to be with, who you want to be that day. That hour, even."
"I had never talked to anyone that way, but I was furious."
"Work hard—he heard Coach Maxwell’s voice in his head. Do your training, run your laps, and maybe someday you’ll find out."
"Born on third base and think they hit a triple."
"Looks matter. What if you were applying for a job, and no one told you that your hair looked bad, or that your lipstick was all wrong?"
"You barely even talk to them. You act like you’re better than they are. You judge them."
"You wouldn’t want to have to find out the hard way that you were wrong."
"You know you’re not supposed to have another adult here."
"Even in my women’s studies class, it’s always guys doing the talking, so how about you just be quiet and listen for five minutes?"
"Nothing happened," he said, already starting to regret that it was true.
"I think that maybe moving in with you was a mistake."
"I’ll bet Miss Maisie doesn’t have any nasty scars on her chest, right?"
"I know it wasn’t his father, but I’d tell him I was proud."
"You knew the risks. You knew this could happen."
"Give blood. Our Olympic runners might need extra."
"I don’t want Andy to think I’m after his money."
"I know I wasn’t his father, but I’d tell him I was proud."
"You’re probably sitting in the dark, not talking to anyone, beating yourself up."
"You’ve still got a long time to live, and there’s plenty of good you could be doing."
"You’re my boy," she said, still crying. "And I’m proud to be your mom."
"I have taken to my bed. It’s like an in-service day."
"The measure of a man is, does he know how to love."
"I grew up without a father," Andy began, "and I wasn’t the greatest kid."
"This year we are here, next year in Jerusalem."
"You’ll find someone. You found me, didn’t you?"
"Did any love ever feel as sweet as first love? Were we all just damaged goods now, battered cans in the grocery-store sale bin, day-old bread, marked down at the register, hoping that someone would look past the obvious flaws and love us enough to take us home?"
"Hello, young lovers," I sang as I put a glass of water on the bedside table, plucked a few dead blooms out of the bouquet on top of my bookshelf, and tucked myself into bed. All of my mem’ries are happy tonight. I’ve had a love of my own."
"You can stop running now," he imagined he heard Mr. Sills saying.
"It hurts more than you think you can stand, but it's going to be better than you can believe."
"A moment of just sensation, of feeling the fabric on your skin, the garment against your body, knowing here the waistband pinches or if the cuffs are the right length, an instant of perfect faith, of pure, untarnished hope."
"The more followers I got, the more I thought about that contradiction; the more my followers praised me for being fearless and authentic, the less fearless and authentic I believed myself to be in real life."