Top 90 Parker S. Huntington Quotes (2024 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. “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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3. “Love is just being there for someone. It’s that simple.”

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

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6. “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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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “Don’t shrink yourself to help others grow.”

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

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

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

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18. “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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19. “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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20. “You can’t love someone who doesn’t love herself.”

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21. “Even the devil needs a friend.”

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

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

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

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

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27. “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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28. “And, I realized, I love her. “Ask me the question, Tiger.” Her eyes fluttered open, not staring at me but into me. “Is this just lust?” “It’s everything.”

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29. “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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30. “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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31. “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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32. “Pain is growth. Fear is risk. You can’t be happy if you’re not growing and taking risks.”

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

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

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35. “They say time dulls the pain. They lie.”

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36. “Bolt is a contronym – a word that is opposite itself. If you bolt something, you hold it together. If you bolt, you separate by fleeing. Bolt is a reminder that words were made by humans, and sometimes, humans make mistakes. Mistakes are powerful, not because they have the power to ruin your life, but because they possess the power to make you stronger.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “You’re breathing, Charlie. You are breathing, and it is beautiful, and I am so grateful for that.”

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40. “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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41. “Don’t succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame.”

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42. “The problem with books about suicide is they’re written by people who are alive.”

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

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44. “He taught me darkness. He taught me strength. Most importantly, he delivered the cruelest lesson of all – there’s beauty in every beast. Thorns in every rose. And a love story can blossom – even from the carcass of hate.”

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45. “I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”

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

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47. “They say love is ten percent falling and ninety percent picking yourself back up. What they never tell you is how quick that ten percent passes and how long that ninety percent lasts.”

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48. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Nora Ephron.”

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49. “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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50. “We were geode crystals. Beautiful. Tough. Shiny. Resilient. Destined for a life sheltered inside an ugly rock.”

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