Janette Rallison Quotes

23 Sourced Quotes

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

Janette Rallison
Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

Janette Rallison
The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

Janette Rallison
Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

Janette Rallison
I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.

Janette Rallison
That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

Janette Rallison
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Janette Rallison
Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

Janette Rallison
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

Janette Rallison
As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

Janette Rallison
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

Janette Rallison
People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

Janette Rallison
At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Janette Rallison
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

Janette Rallison
Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Janette Rallison
Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Janette Rallison
You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Janette Rallison
Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous— and cool like Johnny Depp.

Janette Rallison
I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys' dreams in your spare time.

Janette Rallison
A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

Janette Rallison
Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

Janette Rallison
Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

Janette Rallison
I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

Janette Rallison