Top 51 Addie's Quotes

#1. If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #31809
#2. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #72749
#3. I'm not sure exactly. Against what, Addie?" Laila asks with a smirk. "Against unnormalcy. Antiaverageness.

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #112773
#4. Addie believes in books. They are more interesting than real life and easier to understand. Sometimes you can guess the ending. Things usually work out, and if they don't, you can always tell yourself it was only a book.

Kim Church

Addie's Quotes #236701
#5. Aw, I'm like a proud mother bird watching my daughter fly from the nest. Fly, little bird, fly. Oh no! Don't fall. No, that's the ground. Addie, watch out for the ground. Man, tough luck. You'd better come back home.

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #277969
#6. And if you don't find what you're looking for?"
At Roy's question Addie looked up.
"Then all I've lost is time.

Jodi Picoult

Addie's Quotes #341857
#7. Hey, nice landing!" Addie called, and I turned to see her standing next to her shuttle, grinning.
I laughed and shrugged my shoulders. "They're all still alive!"
"Sort of a low bar you set for yourself, huh?" Beth asked, playfully punching my shoulder as I helped her out of the shuttle.

Amy Tintera

Addie's Quotes #379932
#8. Without a circle of protective love around us, we are no match for the shadows that stalk toward us in the night

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #381240
#9. Maybe faith was never meant to be some perfectly plotted, passion-driven paperback. Maybe faith is the long story of a happy marriage -- an average life made fuller, not smaller, by the pockets of silence and darkness that break into it.

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #396779
#10. Where are you?
You mean where in the house?
Are you in your bedroom?
Yes, I've been reading. Is this some kind of phone sex?
It's just two old people talking in the dark, Addie said.

Kent Haruf

Addie's Quotes #428550
#11. My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Kim Basinger

Addie's Quotes #483853
#12. Bubbles of laughter escape from Addie as she clutches her stomach and points her finger at me.
You should see yourself! I swear I can see your back arching like a cats. I'm surprised you didn't start hissing.

Brandy Nacole

Addie's Quotes #532014
#13. Addie," Laila says, feigning concern and jumping down next to me. "Did you get hurt? What happened?

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #613828
#14. If we don't confuse lust with love, nobody gets hurt." Cleve, I Broke his Heart

Addie Warren

Addie's Quotes #715840
#15. And of course,Addie."
What did he mean by that-"of course, Addie?" Did he mean "Of course you remember this airheaded chick who attacked the mayor with cardboard and had to be bailed out of jail?" That's not what really happened,but how was I supposed to know what he remembered of the incident?

Tristi Pinkston

Addie's Quotes #716605
#16. her. Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there,

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #718161
#17. I want you to choose me, Addie," he whispers. "I want this to be real.

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #744244
#18. Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?"
"Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!

Lauren Myracle

Addie's Quotes #791891
#19. Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing:
If I started that gay rights group,
I must be gay.
So if i start an animal rights group,
what does that make me?
A giraffe?

James Howe

Addie's Quotes #797564
#20. Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?

Anita Diamant

Addie's Quotes #805721
#21. Addie was the greatest joy of Celia's life. Not a burden. Not a tragedy. A gift. A gift that God had perhaps insisted on giving her even when, in fear, she'd asked for the opposite.

Becky Wade

Addie's Quotes #873383
#22. But I'm terrified of giving up my career only to have the whole thing backfire in my face. What if I move down there and it doesn't work out?"
"What if you don't and you never know what might have been? Can you live with that?

Georgia Cates

Addie's Quotes #916654
#23. I Have No Choice, Addie.

Anita Diamant

Addie's Quotes #918653
#24. Addie always keeps her promises.
That's why my mother gave me to her.

Joan Bauer

Addie's Quotes #919422
#25. When Addie had signed up for this course she'd been determined to do whatever it took to get through with a passing grade. She hadn't expected to enjoy it or even learn from it. Yet the novel they were studying was filled with life lessons that seemed to apply directly to her.

Debbie Macomber

Addie's Quotes #946325
#26. Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

Bailey Bristol

Addie's Quotes #989125
#27. I was at the part of self-exploration where you have to be surrounded with miscellanea in all of its diversity in order to figure things out.

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #1008686
#28. Addie had always considered the holidays an extra-special time of year. Magic hung in the air, and people were gentler, kinder to one another. Differences were set aside, friendships deepened, and people in general were more charitable and happier.

Debbie Macomber

Addie's Quotes #1067339
#29. But you remind me so much of her."
"I-I do?"
"Yes." Addie gifted him with a smile."Because I love you both.

Jodi Picoult

Addie's Quotes #1098431
#30. Yes,Addie,you're my girl.You'll be my girl forever.

Lauren Myracle

Addie's Quotes #1158710
#31. Addie was warm and radiant next to me, making up half of us. But I - I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all the way through.

Kat Zhang

Addie's Quotes #1194914
#32. You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #1196254
#33. You have learned that it is impossible to divide things neatly, and that the second you begin to define something, you limit it. There is no such thing as "cut and dried" in a world of broken humanity. Gray bleeds into gray bleeds into gray, no matter how you slice it.

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #1250108
#34. The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. - Bobby Goodspeed

James Howe

Addie's Quotes #1301947
#35. Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.

William Faulkner

Addie's Quotes #1329051
#36. Addie and Louis sat down in front. She had arranged the funeral and told the minister about Ruth. He hadn't known her at all. She had stopped going to any church because of her feeling about orthodoxy and the childish ways in which churches talked and thought about God.

Kent Haruf

Addie's Quotes #1336855
#37. What name shall I call you?"
"Addie's fine. I know who she is."
"A mouthy little alchemist?"
"See, you know her, too.

Becca Andre

Addie's Quotes #1345842
#38. I know that our love isn't perfect, Addie. But I do know that I will fight for us.

Kristen Proby

Addie's Quotes #1406153
#39. What?"
"Nothing." He laughed."You were really hungry."
"I don't need to defend my eating to anyone.And just so you know,when I'm done with this,I plan to eat three whole cookies."
"Whoa." He held up his hands."Now you're pulling out the big guns."
"I don't mess around.

Tristi Pinkston

Addie's Quotes #1437133
#40. That's who he was - not who he is now - and it sounds like you need to decide if you can deal with what he used to do.

Georgia Cates

Addie's Quotes #1474047
#41. (Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.)

Kat Zhang

Addie's Quotes #1495422
#42. Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.

Kat Zhang

Addie's Quotes #1502068
#43. Rubbing herself against a sleeping man just wasn't on. It was morally questionable. Probably illegal. Definitely icky. But why oh why did bad things always feel so damn good? Just once more, she promised herself as she pushed back into him again. "Addie, I am not made of stone.

Amy Andrews

Addie's Quotes #1522866
#44. I gladly gave my aunt the privilege of scraping off all gum so my job wasn't as interesting or horrifying. I did find a few more menu drawings--a baby's scribble, an elaborate tic-tac-toe board, and some stretched out stick figures that made me miss Addie again.

Kate Willis

Addie's Quotes #1532405
#45. [His faith] was a hundred small perfect steps that in the end can never add up to dance ... not the kind I wanted, anyway. Not the tango of Argentina, of the Spanish birthday party.

Addie Zierman

Addie's Quotes #1590447
#46. Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.

Kasie West

Addie's Quotes #1595565
#47. Everybody steals from everybody, Addie. That's the natural order of things. I

Amanda Lance

Addie's Quotes #1600882
#48. You don't have to have a boyfriend
or a girlfriend to know love.
Just open up your heart and
let the world in. Your heart
is bigger than you can imagine,
and so is the world, and so,
granddaughter, are you.
- Addie's grandmother

James Howe

Addie's Quotes #1620486
#49. I know I don't.I just...I don't have the ability some people have of making friends.I think I'm being friendly,and it doesn't come across that way."
I snorted.It wasn't very lady-like.
"That's what you call friendly?"
"Yeah.I know-it needs work."
"It needs surgery.

Tristi Pinkston

Addie's Quotes #1634414
#50. From Fall Irmgard:
"My father preached to me from an early age," Addie said, proudly. "Whether in English or in French, it will be a strong vocabulary and not a strong arm that wins the most battles in one's lifetime!

Rand Charles

Addie's Quotes #1759767
#51. Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?
Addie: She's not that bad.
Joe: Brittany "All the Boys Like Me, I'm so Popular I Could Die" Hobson.
Addie: Joe!

James Howe

Addie's Quotes #1854449

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