De Jong Quotes

When it rain, think of me. I'll be your umbrella, Kate. I'll be your barrier from the storm, when life gets too heavy. Don't let the storm wash you away. Allow it to nourish new life.

When it rains, Kate. Remember me.

It's amazing how many times in life I've said, "I want to do that someday", not thinking that someday might never come. I will never take someday for granted again.

There's a certain way a guy looks at the girl who he can't live without." "And how is that?" "Like she's everything he'll ever need.

All the stars shine for you, Asher.

Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them...I don't want those regrets

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

I need to know that you'll think about the good times we shared, and never settle for anything less than how you felt in those moments.

I'm never going to be the girl I was, but right now, I'm the person I want to be.

We all make mistakes and do things we wish we could take back, but it is what we do after that truly matters…and I like your after.

I don't know what I did to deserve moments like these." "You deserve a lifetime of moments like these.

You don’t live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own…I just helped you find the strength to inhale.

Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it.

When I was a little girl, I believed in fairy tales and one of the dreams I had was someday dancing alongside my prince. Asher's that guy for me. He's my dream and my wish come true. He's my prince.

I'm going to go fishing next summer. And I'm going to try French fries dipped in ice cream. And, when I have s'mores, I'll make an extra one for you. When I hear our favourite songs, I'll dance for you. I'll do anything for you. I'll do it all for you.

I also realized that there’s a difference between soul mates and true love.” ”Is one type of love better than the other? I don’t know, but I’m lucky enough to have found them both.

Life's not fair. Life's often complicated, leaving us to deal with things that we shouldn't have to. Life can make you smile one day, only to leave you broken into tiny little pieces the next.

I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken.

You gave me my life back. You cared about me enough to push back my demons. You made me want to be with you every minute of the day because you made me feel things that no one else could. And whether you’re lying beside me or living in my memories, I will love you. Forever. Always.

Why does God always have to take the best?

We tend to regret our yesterdays, live in our todays, and forget about our tomorrows.

You can't walk through life using someone else's plan.

I want to know you. I want to know what it is that made you cry, but more than that, I want to know what I have to do to make you happy again.

I’ll never regret you. You’re everything to me.

From now on .... When it rains .... Think of me

Mistakes make us who we are.

Redemption isn’t something that comes fast and easy. You have to put all your effort and heart into it to make it work.

I had a dream about you." "Yeah?" "You looked so pretty like always, and you were coming toward me in a white dress. The closer you got to me, the more you cried. And when you were close enough, I grabbed your hand." .... "... After the minister said a prayer, I told you how beautiful you were." "Asher- " "I told you that every star in the sky was made for you, and they were, Kate. You light up my world even in my darkest moments. I told you that I loved you over and over again because I do, Kate. I love you so much, <spoiler>and the thought of leaving you alone is killing me more than cancer ever could."</spoiler>

There’s a difference between soul mates and true love. Looking at the surface, they are similar, but when I dug deep down inside, I found they were different.
Is one type of love better than the other? I don’t know but I’m lucky enough to have found them both.

Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.

Little girls dream about growing up and living in a big house with a gorgeous husband and a pink plastic convertible. It’s not until much later in life that you realize what really matters. Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It’s about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love. The material things don’t matter when your heart is full of joy and contentment.

There are some moments in life we all have to face, even though we don't want to.

If you get one taste of that man, you will never go back to polos and khakis. That boy is going to rock your world.

From now on . . .” kiss. “When it rains . . .” kiss. “Think of me.

Love isn’t defined by what you deserve. It’s about finding that one person you know you can’t live without and never letting them go.-Pierce

It’s loving, passionate, and intense... it’s everything a kiss should be. It’s everything Asher is.

When I looked at you, I didn't see the girl I wanted to share my first kiss with, I saw the girl I wanted to share every kiss with.

You're the type of woman that men don't know they want until they've already fallen. You're there, and then you're just...everywhere.

When you find someone you truly love, nothing else matters.

I've been hurt. I've been saved. And I've found hope.

You don't live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own ... I just helped you find the strength to inhale.

if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true

So little is permissible for a woman—yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.

Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It's about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love.

I wanted to live with hope; I wanted to love with my heart and turn my dreams into reality.

Living in the moment was far better than living by a script.

Now that may be a first. A girl who has no interest whatsoever in the handsome, emotionally unavailable, Dane Wright.

Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences … miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer’s imagination.

The only one who needs to love the person you are with is you.

To me, saying I'm proud of you was almost as important as I love you.

Life's hard and when you know there are ways to drown it out, it's hard to stay on the right path. It's a constant struggle. For a long time, I did it by myself.

Sometimes when life hits you with too much, it makes you stronger and you learn from it. I know where I want to go while some of my friends don't. Life has brought me maturity. I make my decisions based on who I don't want to be, rather than whom everyone else wants me to be. I always want to be better. It took me time to see this, but it's true.

When you become an adult, you get to choose your path. You take all the things you learned while you were on everyone else's and use it to build your own, but it's about where you heart wants to go. It's all up to you.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

Or perhaps he was just one of those people who only opened his mouth to change feet.

I didn’t want a wedding at all until this certain girl popped into my life. Now I want whatever she wants. I would do anything to make her happy.

You don’t live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own . . . I just helped you find the strength to inhale

You will be able to change your life to what you want it to be only by taking responsibility for your own actions

Sometimes, when your back's against the wall, you can do things that you didn't know were possible.

Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken.

Living a meaningful life is important to me. It’s not about money or prestige. It’s about helping as many people as I can through my experience and education. I’m not just doing it for myself

I guess not being ‘just like them’ is a crime.

When you know something is right in your heart, you shouldn’t wait to make it happen. Life is full of uncertainties.

I’d rather go through a million storms with you than have a chance to walk once in the sunshine without you.

How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?

Being in love is different from loving someone. It hits you harder when it all falls apart.

Uno no tiene por qué pedir disculpas si quiere ser el dueño de su propia alma... para bien o para mal. Cuando ya todo se ha dicho y hecho, es todo cuanto queda.

Life can be unfair and unkind, but sometimes we just have to let go and let fate take over.

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

You need to decide what your life is going to look like!

Bitterness is poison, yes, but I hold a flask of it to my lips and drink.

That’s the beautiful thing about love … it’s unintentional, and it can happen when we least expect it,

My plastic heart became glass the day I met Dane Wright.

Sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to. Life was full of truths that don't play out in romance novels. Sometimes we don't get our happily ever after.

Zo moet het met oude echtparen gaan, dacht ik; voor haar blijft in de oude man de jonge bewaard en voor hem de schoonheid en gratie van de jonge vrouw in de oude. (184)

Do you ever leave your arrogance at home or does it follow you wherever you go? - Alex This isn't arrogance, I'm just honest and soon enough you'll be honest with yourself and admit that you want me as much as I want you. - Dane

We tend to regret our yesterdays, live in our todays, and forget about our tomorrows, but I’m trying to cherish them all.

A simple life can make you happy, but taking a few risks along the way can also make it fun. This could all end badly, but for now, I’m going to enjoy it for what it is.

We can pursue our true wants, Mill writes, only when doing so harms no one to whom we are obliged.

Sometimes, losing your dreams could be worse than losing your reality.

I love you more than I love life, because if it weren’t for you, there wouldn’t be as much in it for me.

When you find someone you truly love, nothing else matters. I finally realized that being in love was worth the heartbreak that may follow

Do not be surprised, when thee has children, to find what I have found: of all the kinds of love that bind, a mother’s love for her offspring is the strongest imperative on earth. It is as common as sunlight, as all-penetrating, as necessary to life.

In de fabrieken kon men nog lang oud blijven, zeker, maar men bleef er niet lang jong.

I’m going to marry that boy someday. Not tomorrow, not next year, but someday. He’s my forever. “It’s about time,” he says as I climb into the

Conscious thought is required to design and build the life you want for yourself.

A timesheet is the budget of time management

Random acts of kindness don't have to be big or even cost money. It will however make you a better person.

You can change your life and make it what you want it to be, but only if you take consistent action.

Love is the most powerful emotion that lives inside us all. And when you have it, it can help diminish all the painful emotions that bury themselves too deep to be seen.

River is like Mayweather; I could throw every punch—every argument I have—at him, and he’d never back down.

Redemption isn't something that comes fast and easy. You have to put all your effort and heart into it to make it work. It can't be forced or bought; it simply had to be earned. It requires honesty, commitment and trust. Dane and I have some things to work on, but as long as there is effort, there is hope.

1883. Third Month 16 Some moments set my heart on fire, and that’s when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I’ll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother’s death, words come to me.

Slechts één ding is blijvend, een nooit eindigende schoonheid, die van de ene vorm overgaat in de andere, vluchtig doorgebladerd, voortdurend wisselend, maar die je zeker niet voor altijd kunt vasthouden, in musea neerzetten en in noten vastleggen kunt, om dan jong en oud erbij te roepen, zodat ze erover kunnen zwetsen en druk doen.

[…] Ik spande me in die tijd tot het uiterste in om minder jong te worden- wat gaf ik om verbazing en onwetendheid? […] Ik wist toen nog niet wie hij was: de w van wie en waar en wat, die van waanzin en waarom en wanneer en wacht! en ook die van woestijnen, van weemoed en van wolken- woorden die mij altijd achtervolgen. Het was een kleine, nietszeggende w, toen ik hem vond, en ik was toen nog zo verschrikkelijk onacceptabel jong.

I doubted it. Some people say trying is all that matters, but unfortunately it's only the first step. Sometimes you're got to catch a break and win one, too. You've got to stand up on the bar and do the antler dance. Plus, as I now knew as well as anyone, people really suck at consoling themselves.

Het zou allemaal veel makkelijker zijn als ik een doel had, wat denk jij? Een vraagje: heb jij wél een doel in je leven?' Albrecht dacht na. Had hij in deze verwarrende tijd al zijn eigen plaats gevonden, had hij, jong en gezond als hij was, een helder doel voor ogen? Nee, hij liep maar wat rond en dacht hoogstens aan de volgende dag, hoe hij geld kon verdienen en kon leven en niemand tot last was, meer niet, iets groots zag hij niet gebeuren. Hij stond hoogstens af en toe stil in zijn gejaagde leventje om even op adem te komen, dan maakte hij zich los uit zijn dagelijkse routine en was hij een paar dagen tot niets meer in staat en lag hij als een dode op bed, ongestoord. Dat duurde maar kort en dan was hij weer de oude.

Niets waaraan mensen zich zo lelijk kunnen verwonden als aan het geluk van een ander. Dat iets moois je kwalijk genomen zou kunnen worden, als je jong bent kun je zoiets niet geloven. Dat iemand je de liefde misgunt, hoe kun je daarop bedacht zijn? De eerste tijd heb je het ook helemaal niet door. Omdat het in jou zo zingt ga je ervan uit dat iedereen meeneuriet. Dat ze meedeinen op jouw muziek. Dit is maar schijn. Door jouw roes lijkt het of ze tollen. In feite staan ze stil en ze zetten zich alvast schrap. Vroeger of later bots je in volle vaart tegen ze op.

De echtgenote gaat voor hem staan en draait een rondje. Op hoge hakken kunnen haar benen de vergelijking met lang geleden doorstaan. Hun eerste kennismaking, de eerste dagen, de eerste weken. De tijd dat je een onbeschreven blad bent voor de ander, de vrijheid die dat met zich meebrengt, het geluk. Ergens in haar benen zit de vrijheid die Hofmeester is kwijtgeraakt, en weer heeft teruggevonden op Schiphol. Maar toen smaakte die vrijheid hem niet meer, beter gezegd, daar proefde hij de ware smaak van de vrijheid: gal. Ergens in haar benen zit de herinnering aan geluk. Mooi waren ze altijd al geweest, die benen, lang, slank en toch gespierd. Als ze indruk wilde maken deed ze een korte rok aan. Hij herinnert zich de blikken van de andere mannen, hij herinnert zich de eerste keer dat hij besefte dat hij kinderen had gekregen met een vrouw die eigenlijk te jong voor hem was, die niet bij zijn leeftijd noch zijn status paste. Haar stillevens stelde niet veel voor, maar als stilleven was ze zelf onovertroffen. De hel waren niet de anderen. Hij was het zelf. De hel zat diep in hem. Verankerd, verborgen en onzichtbaar, maar wel levend en warm. Gloeiend heet.

Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?” Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.” “To — Where’s that? What for?” “To sell my jewels, Mrs. Pool. And to see Aladdin, and Harun-al-Rashid and Ali Baba. And the Forty Thieves.” Mrs. Pool had left her rocker and had come down the steps. The wagon creaked on past her gate. She took a step or two down the path, and called after them. “I never heard of it. Bag — How do you get there?” Over her shoulder Selina called out from the wagon seat. “You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say ‘Open Sesame!’ and there you are.” Bewilderment shadowed Mrs. Pool’s placid face. As the wagon lurched on down the road it was Selina who was smiling and Mrs. Pool who was serious. The boy, round eyed, was looking up at his mother. “That’s out of Arabian Nights, what you said. Why did you say that?” Suddenly excitement tinged his voice. “That’s out of the book. Isn’t it? Isn’t it! We’re not really ——” She was a little contrite, but not very. “Well, not really, perhaps. But ’most any place is Bagdad if you don’t know what will happen in it. And this is an adventure, isn’t it, that we’re going on? People in disguise in the Haymarket. Caliphs, and princes, and slaves, and thieves, and good fairies, and witches.” “In the Haymarket! That Pop went to all the time! That is just dumb talk.