Susane Colasanti famous quotes

If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Love #Relationship #Girl

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Hurt #Stupid #People

No one can be everything you want them to be.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Want

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Normal #Miserable

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.
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#Karma #Revenge #Want

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Unbelievable

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Love Actually #Problem #Possibility

And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Hurt #Believe #Mean

That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Dad #Together #Want

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?
-- Susane Colasanti

#Bullying #Bully #Being Bullied

If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Magic #Feels

One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won't let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world. If you're lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Eye #Differences #Making A Difference

Physical attraction that strong is addictive. And knowing that kind of magic isn’t just a fantasy makes me want to find it again. But what about being with someone who makes me a better person? What about sharing my life with someone who adores me as much as I adore him, whom I can always count on, who helps me find my way when I’m lost?
-- Susane Colasanti

#Strong #Knowing #Magic

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Moving #Fate #Knowing

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Risk #Might

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Order #Track #Storm

I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Thinking #Work Out #Might

No one can save me except myself.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Save Me

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Mean #Personality #Way

You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.
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#Consequence

If I’d stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don’t think I would have survived high school.
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#Believe #School #Thinking

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Mean #Evil #People

Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated and victimized at three in the morning.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Morning #Lying #Tired

For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me- I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Boys #Waiting #One Day

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
-- Susane Colasanti

#School #Way #Would Be

The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly
-- Susane Colasanti

#Bullying #Want #Today

But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Want #Chance

We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Way #Share #Connected

Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Coffee #Needs

I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Looks #Detours #Destination

All I can do is hope.
-- Susane Colasanti

How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong?
-- Susane Colasanti

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Past #Disappear

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Safe #Flash #Ends

TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Thinking #People #Long

Happiness is not limited. There’s enough for everyone.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Enough

I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Moving #Writing #Want

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Depressing #Moving

You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Sad #Breakup #Believe

I deserve to be happy. I'm sad it took me so long to get that. But I get it now.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Long #Deserve

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Parent #Way #Want

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Letting Go

When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Rip #Heart #Feelings

Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Real #Waiting #Waste

Its so weird how connecting with someone in a different setting can bring out this whole other side of them. Like how certain places inspire us to act in ways we normally wouldn't.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Inspire #Way #Sides

Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it’s impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heart’s desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Dream #Giving Up #Heart

No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Two #People #Matter

but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Want #Unattainable #Realizing

My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Hair #Scary #Flags

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Pain #Feels

It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Interesting #Long #One Day

I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Make Me Happy #Worst #Time Of My Life

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Real #Boys #Would Be

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Emotional #Wish #Bruises

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Mean #Long #Surface

Too bad Einstein’s dead. I’m sure he would have appreciated my latest discovery within the space-time continuum.The closer you are to experiencing a monumental event, the longer time stretches out. It makes you feel alone
-- Susane Colasanti

#Space #Discovery #Events

A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?
-- Susane Colasanti

#Smart #Mean #Who I Am

Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Trying #Lines #Forget

The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Rain #Thinking #Make You Think

Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think there’s someone better out there.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Thinking #Perfect #Make You Think

You can’t ever know the real anybody unless you’re friends with them. And sometimes not even then.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Real #Sometimes

We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Love #Choices #Helping

Do you believe in fate?" "I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?
-- Susane Colasanti

#Believe #Fate #Reality

Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s like, she’s so angry all the time. And I didn’t even do anything!” “That’s so wrong.” “Yeah.” “Where’s your dad?” “I don’t know. My mom had me when she was still in high school, so . . .” “You don’t see him at all?” “No, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Mom #Dad #School

Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the smallest charcoal stick from my set. He writes something. He passes it over to me. It says: Time will tell. “And while you’re waiting,” he says, “don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Rip #Writing #Waiting

All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Limbs

Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Fall #Thinking #Stronger

Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie
-- Susane Colasanti

#Guy #Want #Might

Not even a repeat of Dawson’s Creek makes me feel better.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Feel Better #Creeks #Feels

It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - Sara
-- Susane Colasanti

#Incredibles #Feels

But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Song #Rocks #Wheels

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Dancing #Rooms #Burning

Anyway, shes still getting to know you," Mike says. "Chicks are like that. They base how much tey like on you an emotional level. They have to be into your personality first, and then they decide they want you. But if a guy thinks a girl is hot, he'll learn to like her personality later. It's two different worlds, man.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Girl #Men #Emotional

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Life #Song #Answers

I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Summer #Real #Heart

I'm not sure if our friendship is strong enough to survive into next year when we’re away at college. But. We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected. So I have to hope for us. All I can do is hope.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Strong #College #Years

Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that’s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Rip #Two #Parent

It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Interesting #Impossible #Persons

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Appreciate #Noise #Backgrounds

We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude. - Mike
-- Susane Colasanti

#Attitude #Swings #Pms

I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the person you’re trying to reach will be right there waiting.
-- Susane Colasanti

#People #Waiting #Trying