Top 23 Tarttelin Quotes
#1. Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.
Abigail Tarttelin
#2. People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Donald Miller
#3. The thing is, sometimes you have to be brave and say who you are and how you feel. Even if you don't know how you're going to do it. You just have to take a deep breath, and decide to start.
Abigail Tarttelin
#4. #ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.
Abigail Tarttelin
#5. I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn't distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what problem would we have with two men loving each other?
Abigail Tarttelin
#6. In the end, how [is] anyone any different from a 'normal' person? If you love someone, you love them. It doesn't matter where they came from or if they're a boy or a girl, or if you fight, or if they're weird, or if they find it difficult to communicate with you; you just fucking love them.
Abigail Tarttelin
#7. I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger.
Abigail Tarttelin
#8. I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.
Maripol
#9. As a child I had been taught to say my prayers at the start of every day, and so it did not seem an odd thing for me to stand out in the field and say Oh God whatever happens today let it be under your perfect control.
John Masters
#10. Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
Abigail Tarttelin
#11. I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
Lord Dunsany
#12. It is obvious, by the sounds of the dizzy, hysterical laughter that you start to exhale when you're an adult and you have very few friends and only rarely have fun, that they are caught in a bubble of their own awesomeness and won't be leaving the living room any time soon.
Abigail Tarttelin
#13. Tonight, there's no one here to force myself to feel okay for, to smile or hold it together for, and I feel pretty bad.
Abigail Tarttelin
#14. A great book is one, which really don't finish when it finishes.
Aman Jassal
#16. It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
Abigail Tarttelin
#17. So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, 'You look cool', just as Dad says, 'You look terrifying.
Abigail Tarttelin
#18. Sometimes things aren't what you think they are, and even when things seem really bad, it can work out.
Abigail Tarttelin
#19. It's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.
Abigail Tarttelin
#21. What's the point? There is no point. That's the point!
On the joys of existentialism.
John Tarttelin
#22. A wise man knows how little he knows and upon his death he drinks wisdom from an empty cup.
John Tarttelin
#23. I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
Fred Astaire
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