Tamara Ireland Stone Quotes & Sayings

I don't stay anywhere. I visit. I observe. I leave. I don't ever stay.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this information. Tell him to leave? Tell him to stay? But I don't have time to consider any other alternatives, because he scoots in closer and brings his hands to my face, and I fall back into the bookcase as he kisses me with this intensity - like he wants to be here, and if he kisses me just long enough, deeply enough, none of what he just said will actually be true. — Tamara Ireland Stone

When I look around at this 'normal' life you're so eager to leave, I don't see boring or predictable - I see friends who love you and a family that would make any sacrifice for your happiness. I see the kind of security I've never had and always wanted. I may have given you access to the world I know best, but you and your family have given me a world that doesn't exist on a map. — Tamara Ireland Stone

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Technology is a trap — Tamara Ireland Stone

Time is the longest distance between two places. — Tamara Ireland Stone

What you see ... And on the other side: It isn't me. — Tamara Ireland Stone

What you see, it isn't me — Tamara Ireland Stone

I'm completely in love with you. What if I didn't leave, after all? — Tamara Ireland Stone

And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You've made mistakes all your life and you're going to keep making them. — Tamara Ireland Stone

You seem to know how to articulate your feelings and share them with other human beings. I'm afraid my gift is the exact opposite; I'm skilled at holding everything in. — Tamara Ireland Stone

You're still here stitched into me, like threads in a sweater. Feeding me words that break me down and piece me back together, all at once. Tightening your grip, reminding me that I'm not alone. I never was. None of us ever are. You are still here stitched into the words on these walls. Every last one. — Tamara Ireland Stone

How many thought does the brain automatically deliver in a single day?"
"Seventy thousand"
"That's right. Do you act on seventy thousand thoughts a day?"
I shake my head.
"Of course you don't. This thought was one in seventy thousand. It's not special — Tamara Ireland Stone

The trick is to recognize your mistakes, take what you need from them, and move on -Sue — Tamara Ireland Stone

But now, everything is so quiet. Not just the pool, but my mind, too. I don't even feel the urge to swim to the beat of a song. I'm mentally spent. Out of words. Out of thoughts. It feels so good to be this empty. It's so peaceful. -Sam — Tamara Ireland Stone

Alliteration is alarmingly addictive. — Tamara Ireland Stone

And suddenly, she stops moving and looks straight at me. "I'm in love with everything about you".
Her words make me suck in my breath, and when I look into her eyes, I see something I haven't noticed in a while - this look of pure understanding that reminds me why I told her my secret in the first place. That sense of wonder, how she looked at me like she couldn't know me well enough. — Tamara Ireland Stone

The few lamps we left on softly illuminate the walls, and I think about all the paper around us, all this love and pain and fear and hope. We're surrounded by words. Nothing about this moment could be more perfect, because I'm absolutely in love with this room and the people in it, on the wall and otherwise. And with this one boy in particular. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I'm merely reminding you to embrace who you are and surround yourself with people who do the same. — Tamara Ireland Stone

You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't. — Tamara Ireland Stone

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Crappy mall food cures everything. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Shy, insecure, afraid to speak up? "Act as if," they say. Act as if you're not. Stand tall when you walk. Project your voice when you talk. Raise your hand in class. Act as if. Speak your mind. Cut your hair. Be the part. Look the part. You can do this. Just act as if. If you really knew me, If you could see inside, You'd find shy and insecure and afraid. Acting as if. Ironic, isn't it? The only time I'm not Acting "as if"? When I'm on a stage. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I didn't go there looking for you. I went looking for me." My voice is soft, low, and shaky. "But now, here you are, and somehow, in finding you, I think I've found myself. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Yesterday, when I took the stage for the sixth time, I read a poem about unreliable friends, people you love and feel bonded to but can never truly trust. It was about feeling alone and vulnerable, and never being able to fully let your guard down. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I'm going to show you something that will change your whole life. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Sam: Do you always say exactly what you're thinking?
AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. I mean, I'm never rude or hurtful about it, but I don't see any reason to be fake. That's a lot of work — Tamara Ireland Stone

Feeling all the pain of letting them go. And knowing I did the right thing. — Tamara Ireland Stone

And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I'll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I stood there and stared at it - this colorful expanse of paper, with its topographic mountain ranges and changeable shades of blue to depict the various depths of the ocean - and saw a map of the world, but knew it wasn't mine. My world was much, much smaller — Tamara Ireland Stone

Everyone's got something. Some people are just better actors than others. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I have a tendency to overthink things, especially when it comes to my friends, and I don't know ... I take things too personally. I mean, it isn't always them . Sometimes it's me. I just don't always know when it's them and when it's me, you know? — Tamara Ireland Stone

I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. — Tamara Ireland Stone