Janette Rallison famous quotes

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.
-- Janette Rallison

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Mistake #People #Forgiving

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.
-- Janette Rallison

#Dream #Thinking #Appreciate

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.
-- Janette Rallison

#Care #Cheese #Leprechaun

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.
-- Janette Rallison

#Persuasive

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
-- Janette Rallison

#Motherhood #Men #Smell

Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I said. She raised an eyebrow. “It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn’t you?” Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. “Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?” She rolled her eyes. “No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.
-- Janette Rallison

#Mother #Nice #Eye

I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.
-- Janette Rallison

#Blow #Wind #Broken

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Horse #Stars #Giving

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Loneliness #Selfish #Heart

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Night #Sky #People

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
-- Janette Rallison

#Dad #Thinking #Skins

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.
-- Janette Rallison

#Nice #Feel Better #Confusing

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Book #Two #People

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

#Ice Cream #Shoes #Flavor

You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.
-- Janette Rallison

#Girl #Teenage #Twilight

No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.
-- Janette Rallison

#Nice #Teeth #Pay

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
-- Janette Rallison

#Basketball #Hurt #Needs

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?
-- Janette Rallison

#Crazy #Believe #Eye

...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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Dream #Broken #Unattainable

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

#Important #Lessons #Accomplish

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

#Powerful #Wish #World

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.
-- Janette Rallison

#Done #Impossible #Sometimes

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.
-- Janette Rallison

#Hurt #Arizona #Plant

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.
-- Janette Rallison

#Children #Decision #Selling

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

#Keys #Godmother #Overcoming

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.
-- Janette Rallison

#New York #Nice #Feelings

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.
-- Janette Rallison

#Wish #May #Kind

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

#Believe #People #Magic

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

#Stories #World

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

#Lying #Believe #Fiction

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#People #House #Trying

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

#Thinking #Guy #Handsome

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.
-- Janette Rallison

#Games #Dating #Next Level

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.
-- Janette Rallison

#Long #Tails #Malls

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.
-- Janette Rallison

#Real #Robins #Robin Hood

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Pain #Kids #Thinking

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
-- Janette Rallison

#Eye #Ceilings #Sometimes

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Running #Heart #Smell

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

#Needs #Fickle #Rooms

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

#Crazy #Becoming #Going Crazy

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Girl #Teenage #Writing

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Mom #Mother #Doors

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

#Mother #Men #Wife

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.
-- Janette Rallison

#Guy #Problem #Contradiction

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

#Fun #Party #Fortune

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

#Said #Disgusting #Nun

I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.
-- Janette Rallison

#Feet #Knights #Kingdoms

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Crush #Dream #Boys

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Book #School #People

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Twilight #Thinking #Hair

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Teenager #Adults #Matter

Happy people are rarely interesting.
-- Janette Rallison

#People #Interesting #Happy People

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.
-- Janette Rallison

#Love You #People #Decision

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

#Dark #Thinking #Pirate

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought...
-- Janette Rallison

#Hurt #Next #Needs