Top 50 Janette Rallison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”

— Janette Rallison

2. “You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.”

— Janette Rallison

3. “Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.”

— Janette Rallison

4. “Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”

— Janette Rallison

5. “Perhaps I wasn’t going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.”

— Janette Rallison

6. “Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.”

— Janette Rallison

7. “You can’t rush your muse. They don’t punch time clocks.”

— Janette Rallison

8. “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.”

— Janette Rallison

9. “Rude behavior may get you nowhere in life, but crazy behavior will take you all sorts of places. Most people prefer you go there alone.”

— Janette Rallison

10. “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

11. “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.”

— Janette Rallison

12. “Wishes are powerful things. You can’t expect them to change the world without changing you too.”

— Janette Rallison

13. “Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.”

— Janette Rallison

14. “Happy people are rarely interesting.”

— Janette Rallison

15. “The key to happiness – as any good fairy godmother will tell you – is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.”

— Janette Rallison

16. “What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn’t a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.”

— Janette Rallison

17. “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

18. “Well you can’t believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.”

— Janette Rallison

19. “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

20. “The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.”

— Janette Rallison

21. “Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.”

— Janette Rallison

22. “Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.”

— Janette Rallison

23. “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.”

— Janette Rallison

24. “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

25. “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

26. “Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish.”

— Janette Rallison

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren’t real are still true.”

— Janette Rallison

30. “As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn’t a contradiction of terms.”

— Janette Rallison

31. “Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.”

— Janette Rallison

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

— Janette Rallison

33. “Fairy’s side note: Even people who don’t believe in magic really do.”

— Janette Rallison

34. “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

35. “No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.”

— Janette Rallison

36. “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

37. “By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.”

— Janette Rallison

38. “Life gave you problems. It was your responsibility to rise above them.”

— Janette Rallison

39. “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.”

— Janette Rallison

40. “If you don’t seize the moment, the moment will never seize you.”

— Janette Rallison

41. “When life gets overwhelming, I remind myself that the trick is balance.”

— Janette Rallison

42. “Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.”

— Janette Rallison

43. “Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They’re like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous – and cool like Johnny Depp.”

— Janette Rallison

44. “I don’t care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.”

— Janette Rallison

45. “The next level. As though dating were a computer game.”

— Janette Rallison

46. “I’m pretty sure it means I want to kiss you.”

— Janette Rallison

47. “Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it’s what’s on the inside that matters. It’s always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.”

— Janette Rallison

48. “The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.”

— Janette Rallison

49. “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.”

— Janette Rallison

50. “I wondered if a mall Santa had ever been dragged away in handcuffs and charged for fraud, but I didn’t ask.”

— Janette Rallison