Top 90 Parker S. Huntington Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill.”

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2. “Storms will always rage. Don’t run from them. Face them. Some things in life can only be learned in a storm.”

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3. “Love is just being there for someone. It’s that simple.”

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4. “Hiraeth is a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was. It is the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. I’ve always thought of it as the saddest entry in the dictionary.”

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5. “If you see something, say something. This isn’t just a slogan. It’s a creed. There is no such thing as an innocent bystander.”

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6. “Tacenda originates from the Latin participle taceo for ‘I am silent’. Taceo is also the verb for ‘I am still or at rest’. Taceo reminds us silence isn’t a sign of weakness. It is a sign of rest, of certainty, of contentment. Silence is the best response to people who don’t deserve your words.”

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7. “People assume strength is loud. In reality, strength is silent. It is resilience, the will to never surrender your dignity.”

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8. “Pain is growth. Fear is risk. You can’t be happy if you’re not growing and taking risks.”

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9. “People assume strength is loud. In reality, strength is silent. It is resilience, the will to never surrender your dignity. And sometimes, the only person who knows strength exists inside you is you.”

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10. “Fate is a hurricane. You think you know where it’s going. You think you’re safe. And just when you think you’ve weathered the storm, its path moves directly into yours.”

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11. “I wish I had cancer. Or some other grand battle. Dementia, stroke, organ failure. If I lose those fights, I’m brave. But the thing I’m battling is my mind. And if I lose, they’ll just call me weak.”

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12. “Don’t shrink yourself to help others grow.”

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13. “Perfection is unattainable. It’s stained by the suffering required to chase it. Perfect is something you think with your head. Lagom is something you feel with your heart.”

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14. “If you had to change yourself to be accepted, you didn’t need that person in your life in the first place. Because it wasn’t you they wanted to be with. It was their version of you.”

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15. “Grief is a side effect of love. It lasts as long as the love lasts. You get used to the pain until you’re reminded it’s there.”

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16. “Books. Rain. Libraries. Driving alone at night with my favorite playlist in the background. Traveling – mainly for the food. But the historic stuff is decent, too.”

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17. “When I sleep, I dream. When I wake, the nightmare begins.”

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18. “Who are we to defy the universe?”

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19. “She tasted like sweet venom. Warm and cottony and dreamlike. Deadly toxic. Gorgeously addictive.”

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20. “Tears are the language of grief. And grief is the language of love.”

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21. “Balter?” “To dance – artlessly, with no grace, no skill, but always with enjoyment.”

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22. “You can’t love someone who doesn’t love herself.”

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23. “Sometimes, the struggle is important. Struggle changes people more than success.”

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24. “I would let him ruin me as thoroughly and impressively as Elon Musk destroyed Twitter.”

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25. “If I tell you anything worth learning, it’s this. Love is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul, but in return, you receive happiness, memories, and life.”

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26. “Even the devil needs a friend.”

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27. “Pain and scars are the armor beauty wears.”

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28. “Love always wins. After every war, there’s a baby boom. After every storm, spring sweeps in and everything blooms. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Love is an effortlessly potent fuel. It is easier to maintain than hate. It doesn’t consume – it fuels.”

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29. “You’re rich. We get it.” She yawned. “The only billionaires I like are fictional.”

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30. “That was the thing about despair. It built up like a Jenga tower. Higher and higher, on shaky ground. One bad move, and you were toast.”

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31. “I love words, because they’re mine. Utterly, completely mine. I can share them with others. I can keep them to myself. I can use them over and over again. No matter what I do, they’ll always be mine. No one can take them away from me.”

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32. “It was a promise I shouldn’t have made. One that defied the hardest lesson I’d ever learned. Love is expensive. Its currency is grief. And sometimes, it costs more than you can afford.”

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33. “I don’t want someone who holds an umbrella over my head when it rains. I want someone who doesn’t even own an umbrella. Someone who watches me balter in the rain when they don’t know the word exists. Someone who stares at me instead of the stars in the sky.”

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34. “Ya’aburnee is Arabic for you bury me. It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them.”

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35. “If you want to be better, do it because it makes you happy. Not because you think it will make someone else happy or because you feel like you have to.”

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36. “Adolescent love is the greatest pain of all. It teaches you the power other people have to destroy you.”

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37. “No, it’s not. It’s about your fear. Your inability to lose control. You’ve always been the person others depend on, and now it’s your turn to depend on me. It scares you. You don’t want to tell me you love me because you think it gives me power over you.”

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38. “I’d been born with a spine, and I fully intended on using it. Flowers wilted. Girls didn’t.”

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39. “Suicide is a war of two fears – fear of death and fear of the thing that pushes you toward it. The stronger side always wins. And if you lose, the penalty is death.”

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40. “You’re going to be a headache, aren’t you?” “A headache?” I cocked my head. “You kidnapped me, you psycho. I’m not gonna be a headache. I’m going to be, at the very least, a deadly brain tumor.”

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41. “She was broken. I was destroyed. This had disaster written all over it.”

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42. “People fall in love every day. Good people. Bad people. All the colors in between. They love fast, and hard, and deeply. And sometimes, they are lucky enough to be loved back.”

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43. “Finifugal originates from the Latin word fuga, for flight. It shows us that endings are fleeting. We may hate them. We may fear them. We may avoid them. But we don’t need to. Like sunsets, endings can be beautiful. The next morning, the sun always rises again, because there is no such thing as an ending, just a new beginning.”

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44. “Falling in love with you is like diving blindly into a book, not knowing it’s destined to be my favorite. Whatever’s more than love, I feel it for you. I am only ever going to be in love with you.”

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45. “It was difficult to reconcile the existence of fairness when Tate Marchetti had been born with an assault rifle for a cock. Thick, hard, and longer than should be legal.”

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46. “Here’s a life lesson I’d never wanted to learn. Our secrets are nothing but a string of memories we wish to forget.”

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47. “I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”

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48. “You’re breathing, Charlie. You are breathing, and it is beautiful, and I am so grateful for that.”

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49. “She uncurled my fingers one by one and pressed my palm to my heart. “Hatred comes from here. When you hate someone, a piece of them is lodged in your heart. If you don’t let the hate go, you live with that person inside you forever.”

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50. “A morsel of what I wanted to happen flashed behind my lids. Us. Tangled in the jungle gym. Screwing on the swings. Him, eating me out on the slide. I needed to run straight to my room, do fifty Hail Marys, and bathe in holy water. This was the playground I brought Jonah’s daughter to once a week. I’d never be able to play with Rowling there again.”

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