Janette Rallison Quotes - Page 2

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.