Marilyn Grey > Quotes

“Sometimes when you take chances you lose chances. And sometimes when you lose chances, you gain something else. Don't live for chances. Sometimes it's better to lose chance and gain purpose. Live for today. You'll find so much more joy.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“My dream is every day. When I wake up, I want to find something new. Something beautiful about each day I'm given. I want to take the cards I'm given and play them with a smile, not to win, just to play.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“Dear Juliet. I could relate to her pain. Black misery painted on a blood red heart. Death would be more bearable than life without Romeo.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“Life isn't always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they'll fizzle out just as fast. Life's an experience, not a destination. All of us have the same destination, but not one of us has an identical experience. You'll find someone who will be there when the fireworks fizzle out and the sky turns black and love you just the same. That’s the one to hold onto.”
― Marilyn Grey, Bloom

“Hope doesn't need to come tomorrow, it can come right now.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“But if you keep trying to fix the past and plan your future, you will never live today.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“Flies can be sitting in a garden and completely ignore the beautiful flowers around them. Instead they'll go right for the rotting banana peel or piece of trash. Bees, on the other hand, could be sitting in a room full of trash and find the tiniest speck of fruit or honey to land on. Don't be a fly. Become a bee and stay a bee. Look for the good in every circumstance, even the most horrible and disgusting places. There's always some honey to land on.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“No relationship is perfect, but if you soften up and allow yourselves to mold into one person, instead of two separate people sharing a home, you will find it much easier and more beautiful.
Be one and let no one tear you apart.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“I’m not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I'm not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a few hours. You need to face reality and stop turning life into a movie. I'm not a puppet in your show. This is real life and you're always trying to ignore it for some cheap fantasy version where no problems exist. That's not noble of you, okay? You're not strong. You're a weak person like the rest of us. You've just learned to excel at avoiding issues. But there are issues . Life has so many freaking issues and if you can't force your own self to face life and make decisions without someone telling you what the hell to do, you're just going to end up another chess piece moved around by others.”
― Marilyn Grey, When the City Sleeps

“Everything feels right with her. I can’t explain it. The world just stops. Everything freezes. It’s me. It’s her. It’s just us. Everything else, every molecule, including the oxygen we breathe, is only secondary to the chemistry we create. When we watch a movie it’s more than images strung together in the form of mindless entertainment. It’s an experience. An experience we share together from making the popcorn to watching the film to talking about it for days after. Chemistry. What more can I say? You either have it or you don’t.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“For the first time in my whole damn life I can look into a girls eyes and find her looking right back at me. Not passed me. Not around me. Into me.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“Be a giver. Not because you want something out of it. Because it's who you are.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“So many people, so many chances to find love, why did I have to believe in only one person?”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“All I know is that when your soul becomes so entwined with another soul that you can't breathe when he's gone, you have become soul-mates. When you can't live without him and he feels the exact same way.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“Always go after the girl. No matter what she says. Chase her.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“If you want something, get it. If you like someone, show it. If your sad, cry. Happy, smile. no point in hiding things and pretending to be one thing when your really another.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“We wanted to find love, stay in love, and evolve with love, and we'd waited forever to find the one person who would make that journey the best adventure it could possibly be.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“Romance meant more to me now. More than laughter and longing. I couldn’t explain it. Romance, true romance, killed my childish dreams and replaced them with something real. Something of significance. Deeper and darker and brighter all at the same time. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Patience. Goodness. Kindness. Peace. Joy. Love. True love.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether new?”
― Marilyn Grey, Heart on a Shoestring

“They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“The heart can ignore the mind. Happens all the time. But the mind cannot ignore the heart. I tried, believe me. Doesn’t work. The heart rules when the mind is in doubt.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“But what is love if the heart falls for someone else so fast? Was it real?”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“Choices are one thing, though. And in my humble opinion... Every choice I make will lead me to the one, at the right time. The only problem is I can't figure out how for sure when I've found the one. Did I already?”
― Marilyn Grey, Where Love Finds You

“You may think the actions that mean the most are the ones we get credit for, but I happen to believe they mean more when people aren't aware.”
― Marilyn Grey, Bloom

“He realized, you see, that he was stupid enough to fall in love with a woman he never saw with his eyes, but that's okay, my dear, because the heart doesn't need eyes to fall in love.”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“She was my person. My one person.We were growing into each other. Changing. Morphing into one soul. And I loved every second of it.”
― Marilyn Grey, Down from the Clouds

“Doesn’t there come a time when you need to bury the past? When you stop using it as excuse to curl up in a ball and not live your life?”
― Marilyn Grey, The Life I Now Live

“Someone once told me that you know you've found the right one when both people feel like they don't deserve each other." She closed her eyes, then leaned back and looked at me.

"Let's love each other because we can't help it, not because we deserve it.”
― Marilyn Grey, Heart on a Shoestring

“door I thought about life and how it resembled a ladder. Do you ever feel that way? Like life is one big uphill climb and there are always more people and circumstances tripping us and trying to pull us back down the ladder, while very, very few people ever stop to give us a hand up. “Fend for yourselves ,” seems more like the motto of the world. Survival of the fittest doesn’t exactly leave room for encouragement.”
― Marilyn Grey, When the City Sleeps