Wholesome Quotes

“i worry, sometimes, that my love for her will expand beyond the limitations of my body, that it will one day kill me with its heft.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.”
― Peggy Webb, The Mona Lucy

“And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.”
― Laisha Rosnau, Notes on Leaving

“Eat beautiful foods, which are nutritionally dense, wholesome and natural.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Come on, Marianna! Women are like Priuses—although we can go for miles and miles without it, sometimes we still need to get filled up!”
― Alexandra Brenton, Tide's Ebb

“Positive mind. Positive vibes. Positive life.”
― Expherience

“Always remember: Someone is having a worse day than you.”
― Carsten Reymond

“I would do anything to make you happy because no one had ever smelled like you did. It was candy canes and pinecones. It was epic and awesome. and it was home.”
― T.J. Klune

“Where I belong, where I'll be sitting...
Will always be next to you,
Hayden.”
― Teki Yatsuda, A Home Far Away

“She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely.”
― Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― holly black, The Queen of Nothing

“My dear Pooh," said Owl, "everybody knows that it's spelled with a Two."
"Is it?" asked Pooh.
"Of course," said Owl. "After all, it's the second day of the week."
"Oh, is that the way it works?" asked Pooh.
"All right, Owl," I said. "Then what comes after Twosday?"
"Thirdsday," said Owl.
"Owl, you're just confusing things," I said. "This is the day after Tuesday, and it's not Thirds — I mean, Thursday."
"Then what is it?" asked Owl.
"It's Today!" squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“Take care of yourself, especially your mental health. That is super important. People love you, including me. If there's anyone in the world who loves you, it's me. I know I say this a lot but I mean it. Love you, bye.”
― Drew Carey, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz

“They made their way past the heavy carved doors and his eyes imme-diately examined the room. He surveyed the perfectly preserved books lining the wall furthest from the entry, the dark amaranth desk and chair covered with large stacks of papers and the box of photobooks beside it on the floor. He inspected the glass on the coffee table and could just make out their fat cat Butter slowly making his way towards his feet to demand his daily massage.”
― Alexia D. Miller, Crystal Storm: Battleground

“His father often mentioned young and old. He'd said it was to remind himself to put things into perspective. To remember that he was starting to age. His black curly hair, which he passed on, had begun to gray Ironically, his mustache had beaten his hair and beard to it, losing all of its black sheen in favor of silver. Even his eyes seemed a little less blue as the days went on.

Even though he knew his father was aging, in moments like those, as he smiled showing him a photograph of a bright light in the shape of a person, he often thought his father was younger. He could look past the slight wrinkle of his skin and the color of his veins that he couldn't see a year before.”
― Alexia D. Miller, Crystal Storm: Battleground

“The tiny Fireball was like a mother’s embrace, a kiss from a soulmate, the hug of a daughter never born, a dream pined for an eternity, finally realised.”
― Sameer Kochure, The Tiny Fireball: A Novel

“To hate destructiveness one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“And each time she came to his wharf, she saw her book propped up in the tiny window for all to see. As a father would have shown it.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Where I belong, where I'll be sitting... Will always be next to you, Hayden.”
― Teki Yatsuda, Home Far Away

“Missy and a life filled with love and happy obscurity? Or a title and the means to change
the lives of hundreds of orphaned children and homeless in Andelar? He couldn’t have both. Was love worth it?”
― Joy Crain, The Cost of the Crown

“She wanted to erase every memory of him from her head. She wanted to forget how right it had felt being in his arms and how her heart had raced when she thought he was going to kiss her.”
― Joy Crain, The Cost of the Crown

“Wholesomeness might as well have been a poisoned apple, a Halloween Snickers bar with a razor in its nougat center. I couldn't trust so many people absent from the warm blanket of irony. It was more comfortable to believe this was insidious.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“If anybody had told him five years ago that August would be the first of them to have kids, Asa would have laughed himself sick. His older brother was the most twisted and depraved of them all. He loved killing more than Asa or Avi. More than that, he loved torturing them. Reveled in it, even. And now, he had babies. Tiny human babies, who gazed up at him with huge green eyes, implicitly trusting his maniac brother to care for them.

And he did.”
― Onley James, Headcase

“After learning that Sasha wouldn’t be able to take time off work to go to Russia during the winter, Jason pilfered Sasha’s sister’s number from his phone, contacting her about what they usually had for dinner on New Year’s Eve, and making it—or attempting to, anyway—as a surprise for Sasha.

Jason would never forget Sasha’s face that night. Confused, at first, when he smelt the food before seeing it all laid out on Jason’s table. Pickled vegetables glinted alongside a beetroot and herring salad—if it could be called a salad, really, with the amount of mayonnaise in it. There were cut fruits and lemons, and in the middle, a mountain of pork and potatoes that could feed far more than two people.

Sasha had stared, tears welling up in his eyes at once, to Jason’s repressed mortification and pleasure. Before Jason could try and downplay the gesture, Sasha had swept him up into a bear-hug so crushing and delightful that he’d genuinely not been able to breathe for a few seconds.

“Best friend!” Sasha declared him at once, swinging him around and almost braining Jason on the wall.”
― Marina Vivancos, Crybaby

“I’m gonna come home, Mom, even if it’s not forever. I can take a semester off and then decide if I’ll go back next year. You guys need me here. It might be hard for Dad, and I—”

“You’ll do no such thing,” Dad said, his voice raspy.

“We didn’t mean to wake you,” Mom replied.

“You didn’t. I always wake up when I’m needed.” Dad’s eyes on me were intense. “You’re not comin’ home.”

“You’ve said it yourself, I belong here. You’re my family, and I’m supposed to be working this farm with you.” The words were heavy in my chest.

“No, son. You don’t belong here. And not because we don’t love you or want you. You’re too damn bright a light for this place, and the last thing I want is to go to my grave knowing that my dreams for you dimmed that light.”

“Dad… I…” I didn’t know what to say. Or what to feel, other than loved.

“Nearly dying does a thing to a fella. I just… When I was goin’ down, all I was thinkin’ was, what if I died and my boy thinks I don’t love him? Don’t accept him? And listenin’ to you with your mama right now…you talk about that boyfriend of yours the way I always talked about her. Couldn’t believe she would give me the time a day, if I’m being honest. But I loved her and she loved me, and you love that boy just the same.”
― Riley Hart, Pretty Perfect

“There is no greater sound on the face of the planet than a child's laughter.”
― Matthew Perry, Amigos, amantes y aquello tan terrible

“He grins at me then, and despite my annoyance, despite my throbbing shoulder, I am relieved. I would rather spend the rest of this train ride fighting with him than let him be trapped alone with his thoughts and fears again.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“Somehow, they suit each other, Rudy and Eldorath. They have the same imagination, and it’s as if they have been waiting for each other their whole lives.”
― Kereen Getten, When Life Gives You Mangos

“He and Olly make a Pinterest board over breakfast.”
― E.L. Massey, All Hail the Underdogs

“Isn't it weird that we were both convinced that we loved each other, yet unsure of our own ability of be loved,”
― Mary Crawford