Janette Rallison citations

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

“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.”

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

“That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.”

“But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.”

“Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”

“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.”

“… 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.”

“Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?

… No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.”

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

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

“Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.”

“Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.”

“People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.”

“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?”

“That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.”

“I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.”

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

“Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.”

“Like Robin Hood…. Not real, but true.”

“Happy people are rarely interesting.”

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

“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.”

“The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.”

“The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.”

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