Life Quotes Quote by E. Lockhart, We Were Liars — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”

“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

“Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”

“Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

““So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”