Emery Whitehill Quotes

#1. Stop documenting the moment for a second, he told me. Just be in it. #Quote by Emery Lord

#2. In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos. #Quote by Emery Lord

#3. I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I'm stumbling forward. #Quote by Emery Lord

#4. If we could capture feelings like we capture pictures, none of us would ever leave our rooms. It would be so tempting to inhabit the good moments over and over again. But I don't want to be the kind of person who lives backwardly, who memorializes moments before she's finished living in them. So I plant my feet here on this hillside beside a boy who is undoing me, and I kiss him back like I mean it. And, God help me, with the sky wrapped around us in every direction, I do mean it. #Quote by Emery Lord

#5. The morning sun has edged past the horizon line, casting shadows of the leaves like lace on the sidewalk. Flowers burst throughout every inch of the town- fuschia roses crawling over trellises, forsythia blazing like yellow fireworks. As I walk down the sidewalk, the trees undress above me, dropping pale pink petals like a slow burlesque. #Quote by Emery Lord

#6. We can't go back, though
we're apt to waver even as our wheels spin on. #Quote by Brook Emery

#7. Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive? #Quote by Fred Emery

#8. When his eyes land on me, something about his expression changes - like he recognizes me from somewhere, too. I look back, appraising him quickly. He's kind of beautiful, in an understated, comfortable-looking way - the kind of guy who doesn't mind seeing a rom-com with you and gives you his hoodie when you're cold. #Quote by Emery Lord

#9. I would prefer to direct without also starring in the same project. #Quote by Julie Ann Emery

#10. The only difference is that Dee's natural coloring looks like an American landscape - country-sky-blue eyes and hair the color of Tennessee wheat fields, golden strands with darker undertones. My hair is nearly black, and I have jealous green eyes. In a fairy tale, she'd play the good fairy. I'd be the evil witch's screwup second cousin. Dee #Quote by Emery Lord

#11. You're killing me, baby," he said, his voice low and husky.
Baby. I loved the way it sounded rolling off his tongue. "Gently, I hope."
"Sometimes that's the worst way. #Quote by Emery Rose

#12. He brings you gifts to cover his own ass. He gives you a shiny trinket and you forget that he's a couple hours late and smells of perfume. Wise up girl #Quote by Jane Emery

#13. Masturbation was my gateway drug to sex #Quote by Jane Emery

#14. I like the way the word feels against my mouth - soft, unassuming, even soothing. #Quote by Emery Lord

#15. Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets!" ...
Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the grey repeated the offense.
"He wants another go at it. Be a sport ol' man!" Robert chortled. The indignant Scotsman threw the reins in his face, tromping off to collect the major's horse.
"I wonder was it reward or punishment Winthrop had in mind in allowing you to keep that brute?" Drake innocently inquired.
"He only eats Scotsman," Robert quipped. #Quote by Emery Lee

#16. The house of cards had fallen, but I was still standing, and Eden was still standing by my side. Despite everything, she loved my fucked-up self and accepted me exactly as I was. I had nothing to hide from her anymore, and I'd never known this kind of freedom. #Quote by Emery Rose

#17. Later in my room, I lift up my dress and twist to see the rainbow splotch of lotus on my side. And it occurs to me, what if I stopped hating it? What if the tattoo and the scar and this summer's freckles are my patina? Wabi-Sabi says rust and faded paint hold beauty. So what if I let these marks be passport stamps from where I've been - one's that don't determine a damn thing about where I'm going next? #Quote by Emery Lord

#18. He said the measure of the man is in those decisions. Do you keep yourself and your family safe in harbor, always? Or do you move forward and brave the storms? #Quote by Emery Lord

#19. This was never about getting there fast. This was about being sure of my steps forward. They always call it falling in love, but for me? It was also a choice. #Quote by Emery Lord

#20. Sadness still fell - the soft pitter-patter of spring rain - but each small joy opened like an umbrella right above me. #Quote by Emery Lord

#21. She'd tell her daughters someday: 'If you don't feel safe enough to yell back, you're not safe enough. My babies, that is not love. #Quote by Emery Lord

#22. And I say a final last prayer, this one in gratitude that there are people in the world who will protect kids with a fire that makes them sprint after cars, fight systems, curse with rage. It's enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people. #Quote by Emery Lord

#23. You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World. #Quote by Emery Allen

#24. Tell me a secret."
"I've wanted to kiss you since the minute I saw you."
"That's not a secret."
His lips curved into a smile. "No?"
"No. So obvious. #Quote by Emery Rose

#25. Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind #Quote by Brook Emery

#26. My god," Bankole said. "This country has slipped back two hundred years." "Things were better when I was little," Emery said. "My mother always said they would get better again. Good times would come back. She said they always did. My father would shake his head and not say anything. #Quote by Octavia E. Butler

#27. My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones. #Quote by Emery Lord

#28. Ceony nodded, feeling an unseen band of rubber stretch between her and Emery as he turned to go. #Quote by Charlie N. Holmberg

#29. Mmmph.' I grunt this to myself in the helpless way you do when something is just so damn delicious. Yeah, I made it, but...what can I say? I'm good. #Quote by Emery Lord

#30. So, um, what is your name?"
"Oh, that's funny that you don't know! Well, maybe it's not. I've always gone by Jones here, even before I was a counselor. You don't want to guess?"
"Rumpelstiltskin," I say, which makes him burst out laughing. #Quote by Emery Lord

#31. What are we, Dylan?" she asked now, like she often did.
"We're everything, Starlet. Every-fucking-thing. #Quote by Emery Rose

#32. And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who seem too far away to understand. I tuck that thought inside me, warm and small like balled hands inside hoodie pockets. Beneath the beech trees and sugar maples, feet crunching against dead leaves, I hope for strength. Because as much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold onto. #Quote by Emery Lord

#33. Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know. #Quote by Emery Lord

#34. His eyes are somewhere between gray and blue, and his hair is somewhere between brown and blond, and I am somewhere between hostile and attracted. #Quote by Emery Lord

#35. Jonah looks at me so admiringly, and my heart bounces like a pinball from my stomach to my throat to either side of my rib cage. #Quote by Emery Lord

#36. The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true. #Quote by David F. Emery