Natalie Lloyd Quotes

Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.

~ Natalie Lloyd

I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.

~ Natalie Lloyd

She said fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Sometimes you don't need words to feel better, you just need the nearness of your dog.

~ Natalie Lloyd

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that's one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person's mouth. When you know they'll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time.

~ Natalie Lloyd

If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.

~ Natalie Lloyd

And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.

~ Natalie Lloyd

I woke up to an ache in my chest, the smell of chocolate, and the sound of the ghost making a racket in the kitchen. Now, I'm not the sort to dwell on doom and sorrow. Life is too short for that. But I should at least try to describe the ache briefly: It is not the kind that comes from eating tacos too late at night. It's the kind that comes from being left behind. I think my heart is smart enough to know there's a place I should be filling with new memories, new jokes, and wondrous adventures with the one person I loved most of all. But that person is gone now. And so, my heart has a giant hole. I call it The Big Empty.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Believe is a powerful word to see and to say. But that morning, I felt it. And feeling it was the best of all. I knew something wonderful was about to happen to me. I didn't know what, or why, or how. But I believed.

~ Natalie Lloyd

I didn't say another word to Mama that night, but I could feel something good even then: the YES in my heart, the swirling-around in my belly, the prickly tingling all the way from the freckle on my finger to the tip of my pinky toe. That much wonderful could only mean one thing: There was still magic in Midnight Gulch.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Every day you live is a day for dreaming.Every day is a day for adventuring.And every day is for sharing with people you love,because love's all that lasts.It's the only thing we carry out of this world.It connects us all, in the end.

~ Natalie Lloyd

It's so weird how life is so full of moving around--people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.

~ Natalie Lloyd

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Home isn't just a house or a city or a place, home is what happens when you're brave enough to love people.

~ Natalie Lloyd

My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.

~ Natalie Lloyd