Janette Rallison
Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.Collection: Up To You
But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.Collection: Mistake
I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Motherhood
I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.Collection: Care
Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.Collection: Persuasive
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.Collection: Inspirational
You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Night
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.Collection: Eye
I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.Collection: Twilight
The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.Collection: Keys
Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Knights
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Selfish
Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.Collection: Nice
That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Horse
Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.Collection: Believe
No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.Collection: Nice
...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.Collection: Dream
Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplishCollection: Important
Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.Collection: Powerful
Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.Collection: Done
Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.Collection: Hurt
Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.Collection: Children
New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.Collection: New York
The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.Collection: Wish
The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.Collection: Ice Cream
Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.Collection: Stories
You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: People
What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.Collection: Thinking
The next level. As though dating were a computer game.Collection: Games
Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Running
Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.Collection: Needs
Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.Collection: Crazy
Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.Collection: Dark
You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.Collection: Love You
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.Collection: Lying
As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.Collection: Guy
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.Collection: Fun
"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.Collection: Said
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.Collection: Crush
It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.Collection: Book