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My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories QUOTES

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories QUOTES

1 " You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?) "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

2 " Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter. "

― Laini Taylor , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

3 " Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer. "

― Holly Black , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

4 " She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

5 " Christmas Eve is my favorite... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something - food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar - can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

6 " The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

7 " I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.
Eating and crying.
Crying and eating. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

8 " It didn't matter; by now she knew she loved him in any skin. In her book there was another tale - one of the original eighteen - of a dragon who had a human wife, and Neve had never understood it before, at least from the wifes point of view. Love was love.

But she hoped that he was not a dragon. "

― Laini Taylor , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

9 " Would you rather be great at something you like, or just okay at something you love? "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

10 " Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

11 " I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

12 " Thr rareness, the specialness, of North. Of this night. She wished it could last forever. (It's a yuletide miracle, Charlie Brown) "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

13 " His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White) "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

14 " Is it weird being in Omaha?” Simini asked her. “Now that everybody’s left?” “It’s like walking through the mall after it closes,” Mags said. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

15 " What are we doing?” Mags asked. “I don’t know.…” he said eventually. “I know things have to change, but … I can’t lose you. I don’t think I get another one like you. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

16 " North could have kissed her. He could have done it, he could have swooped in, but he was being respectful. It made her want to devour him whole. Or be devoured whole. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

17 " You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

18 " Would you rather be great at something you like, or just ok at something you love? "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

19 " He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

20 " As far as you go, he believes in what he does, and in second chances. He loves people. I’d go so far as to say he loves you.” Loved me? “Why? I don’t follow the rules. Aren’t religious people into rules?” “Rules make people feel safe. But they can turn into judgments. Condemnation is easy, Vaughn. The harder choice is love, and it’s one my dad makes every day. "

― Stephanie Perkins , My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories