Giardina Quotes

#1. And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near.

Courtney Giardina

#2. I'm your wife. You should have come to me. When I have ever not been there to help you? He shook his head, telling me there never was a time, which made his story that much worse. I would have done anything for that man, and he knew it.

Courtney Giardina

#3. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Audrey Hepburn

#4. You see, in every story, it's not about the ending. It's about the chapters in between and how you make it through them

Courtney Giardina

#5. I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

J.G. Ballard

#6. I really have to be watching my back all the time; always be on the defensive? Trusting no one but myself was a cold cross to bear, but at that moment, I wore it.

Courtney Giardina

#7. He placed the tip of his fingers on her chin and tilted her head up to his. Rylan slowly closed her eyes as she felt his breathing quicken. The chill of his lips as they pressed against hers made her buckle at the knees, falling even further into him.

Courtney Giardina

#8. It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.

Terry Pratchett

#9. I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences
if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

Ted Cruz

#10. I'm not going to waste time being angry about things I can't control. If I only have one life, I should make the most of it.

Jodi Meadows

#11. I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you've never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere.

Courtney Giardina

#12. If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Betty White

#13. The sexiest thing about a man is the he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about.

Courtney Giardina

#14. A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it

Courtney Giardina

#15. They only want to be there while you're on top, and when you haven't gotten a gig in a while and you don't know how you're going to pay your rent at the end of the month and the glamor they thought they signed up for is gone, they're walking out the door, leaving you to pick up the pieces.

Courtney Giardina

#16. I don't think it will ever be too late for her, that she still holds out hope that one day he'll see what he left for never replaced what he gave up.

Courtney Giardina

#17. You can never take away the memories I have of us; I will hold those deep inside. And someday, when my heart heals, I may even be able to forgive you. But I just don't have it in me for second chances. I've done those before and they always turn into three or four. It never ends.

Courtney Giardina

#18. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I'd have to stop. I'd have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.

Courtney Giardina

#19. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#20. I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

Maeve Binchy

#21. Love is a funny thing. It can make you the happiest person in the world when it's good, but when it goes bad, it can crush you beyond recognition.

Courtney Giardina

#22. The two of us were everything that we needed to be to one another as we sat behind those strings.

Courtney Giardina

#23. Folks would discuss whether the Antichrist was already alive and, if so, which world leader it might be.

J.D. Vance

#24. People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Samuel Johnson

#25. I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the man who made up my entire world, I was not enough for him.

Courtney Giardina

#26. She smiled, looking up at him, his lips interrupting her attempt to respond. He pulled back slightly, but Rylan stopped him. She wrapped her hands around the back of his head and pulled him back in. Her fingers slid to his shoulders and she squeezed them tightly.

Courtney Giardina

#27. When I'm around you, it's like every dream I've ever had is standing right in front of me.

Courtney Giardina

#28. You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm.

Courtney Giardina

#29. My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Michael Symon

#30. I have traveled outside the mountains, but never lived apart from them. I always feared mountains would be as jealous, as unforgiving, as any spurned lover. Leave them and they may never take you back. Besides, I never felt a need to go. There is enough to study in these hills to last a lifetime.

Denise Giardina

#31. When you're afraid because you don't know what comes next, I will be there to love you through it. So, I guess today, I'm asking you to let me.

Courtney Giardina

#32. Rylan grabbed the seat of her chair and moved it to the side where Kade was sitting. She pulled one hand from his lap and squeezed it between hers. You've got to have a little faith in me.

Courtney Giardina

#33. Everything I didn't know I was looking for ... it's there whenever I'm with you. I don't know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don't want anything other than what's right here, right now.

Courtney Giardina

#34. Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

Jenna Morasca

#35. The feeling of not being enough for someone, of knowing you would do anything for them and they not the same for you. I didn't want to, but I felt bad for her. I wanted to hate her, but I couldn't. I couldn't blame her for what she didn't know.

Courtney Giardina

#36. Find your reason and hold it tight.

Courtney Giardina

#37. You will regret the moments you didn't let love in a hell of a lot more than the moments you did.

Courtney Giardina

#38. A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read.

Hartley Coleridge

#39. I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.

John Darnielle