Susane Colasanti Quotes & Sayings

Distraction is your friend. — Susane Colasanti

All I can do is hope. — Susane Colasanti

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake. — Susane Colasanti

How cool would it be if differences were celebrated? And the more different you were, the better? — Susane Colasanti

And even now, even after all I put him through, he's saving me. I've been trying to find my way into the light for so long, and he just comes along and takes me there. — Susane Colasanti

[Wheel] 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 a part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. I have a theoru that the answers to all og life's major questions can be found in a John Mayer song. — Susane Colasanti

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We're so focused on what bothers us
that we don't even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective. — Susane Colasanti

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut. — Susane Colasanti

No one can save me except myself. — Susane Colasanti

Do you like Rhiannon more than me? ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, but then they get all upset when you are. You can't win. There's no way to win. There are questions you just can't answer without manipulating the truth. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

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

I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn't love me enough to stick around. — Susane Colasanti

You never know when an epiphany will strike. — Susane Colasanti

To bad guys arent like Mr. Potato head where you can pick and chose which parts you want. — Susane Colasanti

When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him. — Susane Colasanti

We're products of our choices. — Susane Colasanti

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

For kids stuck in small towns everywhere who feel like you'll never escape, I hear you. We are all connected. We're all in this together. You are not alone.
No matter what happens, never *ever* give up.
Happiness is not limited. There's enough for everyone. You can start right now, today, to move toward a happier life. Your life is shaped by your choices. Make ones that will help you get where you want to go.
Find your place to belong. It may not be a physical place. At least, not yet. Maybe your place is somewhere you let your imagination take you. Maybe it's your vision of the way your ideal life will be.
Eventually, you'll find a real place that feels like home. Your whole world will open up in ways you kept believing were possible. And you'll be so happy you held on long enough to make it there.
So let's do this thing. Let's own what makes up unique. Let's refuse to allow haters to stop us from moving forward. Let's turn our dreams into reality.
Starting now. — Susane Colasanti

There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever. — Susane Colasanti

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

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away. — Susane Colasanti

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

You have to be a responsible adult and support yourself because no one else is going to do it for you. — Susane Colasanti

The first thing we saw at the pet store was this scary white cat sitting on his own pedestal. He fluffed out his fur in a huff of attitude. His weird eyes were like lasers, way more expressive than human eyes. It felt like he could read my soul. His eyes were all, Yeah. I know you. I know everything you're thinking. The cat was acting all exotic and important. Which I guess is what happens when you're put on your own pedestal. — Susane Colasanti

Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

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

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

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

How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day? — Susane Colasanti

There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is. — Susane Colasanti

Getting dumped is crazy times. Like ... what? You're supposed to instantly turn off all your emotions just because he says it's over? You're supposed to go on with your life like nothing happened? — Susane Colasanti

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

It's up to me to create the life I want. — Susane Colasanti

I will focus on taking care of myself and helping others. I will put more effort into planning for my future. I will make healthy lifestyle choices so I can feel good every day. These are the priorities that matter. — Susane Colasanti

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

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain. — Susane Colasanti

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

Derek's like, "So ... what do you want to do first?"
"I don't know."
"Feel like ice cream?"
"It's, like, three degrees out."
"That's why getting ice cream would be badass. — Susane Colasanti

Maybe it's just hart to see what's right in front of you while you're frantically searching for it. — Susane Colasanti

It's just that when you're trying to balance so many things at the same time, it's inevitable that something's going to fall. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

No relationship is guaranteed to last forever. But I'm okay with being here in the Now and letting later work itself out.
So just like that, I walk out of this life. And into the one I've been waiting for. — Susane Colasanti

Happiness is not limited. There's enough for everyone. — Susane Colasanti

My shows and books are an instant mood adjuster. They're my drugs of choice. And the fictional characters I love are like my friends. — Susane Colasanti

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

Everyone has a breaking point. I've just reach mine. — Susane Colasanti

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

Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there. — Susane Colasanti

Tobey puts the CD on. Then he comes over and hugs me. I lean my head on his chest.
'I want to know everything about you,' he whispers. — Susane Colasanti

An admirable quality of parenthood is the ability to respect your kid's privacy. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care. — Susane Colasanti

Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection. — Susane Colasanti

Because how can you be just friends with someone when what you really want is so much more? But he said he'd rather be friends with me than not know me at all. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

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

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

I'm sorry.'
Congratulations.'
Can you tell me why you're so upset?'
The thing is, Tobey should get this. I mean, he's gotten everything else about me. And I don't want to explain it all. So much of it has to do with jealousy, and I know it's stupid to be mad at him because he had a life before me. But I am anyway. — Susane Colasanti

Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life. — Susane Colasanti

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

I can't tell how much of our connection is because of the things we still have in common or the one thing that bonds us for life. But no matter what happens, I know I can totally count on Erin for anything. And she knows I'd do anything for her. — Susane Colasanti

Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength."
"But we're going to sleep soon," I say.
"I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch. — Susane Colasanti

I know what it's like to have secrets. Ones that are way traumatic. Ones that are so awful you can't tell anybody, even though you're dying to. So I'm not going to talk about this with anyone. It's the right thing to do. Karma and all. — Susane Colasanti

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

Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way. — Susane Colasanti

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

He appears to be pointing at a massive water tower, all hinkered down overlooking the river.
'That's an old one.' This ancient, dark metal thing. It looks like a shadow of itself.
'Wait for it,' John says.
'For what?'
'It.'
A few minutes later, the sun slips behind the water tower. The effect is like a total solar eclipse, with the water tower blocking the sun.
'Whoa.'
'Thanks. I arranged that myself. — Susane Colasanti

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life. — Susane Colasanti

And the What Ifs are the worst. — Susane Colasanti

We had algebra together, right?"
"Yeah." That was two years ago. I only vaguely remember him. Something about circles. "Didn't you draw perfect circles?"
"That's what I'm known for."
"Really?" Erin goes, all excited about the circles.
Jason says, "No, it's just this one time I went up to the board and I had to draw a circle and it came out really ... round."
"Which is always a good thing, when you're drawing a circle," I say.
"Exactly." Jason smiles at me.
"It was more than one time," I remind him. For some reason, it's all coming back to me now. "It was more like three or four times."
"What can I say?" Jason goes. "You got me."
Now we're both smiling. — Susane Colasanti

I still love him. And here's the worst part. I want him back. - Ree — Susane Colasanti

Who remembers everything about somebody? — Susane Colasanti

I sort of lean back into him. Like I'm melting into him. And in that instant, I finally know what it feels like to be whole. I've been wishing for my life to get better. Now I realize that James can take me to a place where everything's the way it should be. He can definitely take me there. — Susane Colasanti

I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves.
There they go again.
Jiggle.
Jaggle.
I'm a mess. — Susane Colasanti

Seriously, if we stayed inside the lines on everything we're supposed to be doing, we wouldn't get anything done. Know what I mean? — Susane Colasanti

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

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

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

Is your dad still in a huffufle about it?" I ask.
"Oh, he's huffufled, all right. — Susane Colasanti

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. — Susane Colasanti

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

The point of learning about history is so we can improve the future. — Susane Colasanti

Then he says how it's no one's fault, it just happened, and I swear that it-just-happened line is the filmiest line in the Book of Excuses for Lame Boys. — Susane Colasanti

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

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

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

It's wild how unexpected experiences can shape your life in ways you never saw coming. — Susane Colasanti

We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves. — Susane Colasanti

What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters — Susane Colasanti

He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated. — Susane Colasanti