The best Quotes from A Little Wanting Song

I guess there are a lot of people who don't know the right thing to say. You don't notice them so much because they pretend they do.

It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.

Dreaming's the only way to get anywhere.

For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.

It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry.

Every time he looked at me I felt like I'd touched my tongue to the tip of a battery. In art class I'd watch him lean back and listen and I was nothing but zing and tingle. After a while, the tingle turned to electricity, and when he asked me out my whole body amped to a level where technically I should have been dead. I had nothing in common with a sheddy like him, but a girl doesn't think straight when she's that close to electrocution.

I guess love's kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes it's still a marshmallow. but, you know, now it's a complicated marshmallow.

I like the idea of her bottles. Memories that are nothing but a strange shape floating inside of you, memories that are nothing but empty bottles. And the good stuff, glassed in so it can’t float away.

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

May your sword be sharp and your tongue sharper.

Diplomacy is a battle I has never learnt to fight.

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

Come in close, because the more you think you see, the easier it'll be to fool you.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

It's funny because everything makes me think of you. I read a poem, and I wonder what you'd say about it.
I see people, and I wonder you'd know about them.
Everywhere I go, I run into something, that reminds me of you all over again.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

You can love someone so much... but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

Love's involved with spending time together, but spending time apart, can lead to loving even more.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.