Birthday
Quotes - May today be the best birthday of your life
“The
cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which
was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just
for me.”
―
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“Happy
birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.”
―
Rachel Caine, Let Them Eat Cake
“May
today be the best birthday of your life, I give you my heart as the most
precious gift I can give you and I promise I always will love you.”
―
Oscar Auliq-Ice
“There
are many beautiful songs but I do not dedicate any of them to you because they
do not describe the infinite love I feel for you. It is better that I tell you
that myself, that I love you with all my strength. Have a happy birthday.”
―
Oscar Auliq-Ice
“We
do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday
parties.”
―
Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies
“They
all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn't common in our compound, and
there are more smiles on their faces than I've ever seen at once. And yet as I
watch them, I feel more intensely than ever the knowledge that I'm not one of
them. For these moral humans, birthdays are a kind of countdown to the end, the
ticking clock of a dwindling life. For me, birthdays are notches on an infinite
timeline. Will I grow tired of parties one day? Will my birthday become
meaningless? I imagine myself centuries from now, maybe at my three-hundredth
birthday, looking all the way back to my seventeenth. How will I possibly be
happy, remembering the light in my mother's eyes? The swiftness of Uncle
Antonio's steps as he dances? The way my father stands on edge of the
courtyard, smiling in that vague, absent way of his?
The
scene shifts and blues in my imagination. As if brushed away by some invisible
broom, these people whom I've known my entire life disappear. The courtyard is
empty, bare, covered in decaying leaves. I imagine Little Cam deserted, with
everyone dead and gone and only me left in the shadows.
Forever.”
―
Jessica Khoury, Origin
“a
happy birthday
this
evening, I sat by an open window
and read
till the light was gone and the book
was
no more than a part of the darkness.
I
could easily have switched on a lamp,
but
I wanted to ride the day down into night,
to
sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page
with
the pale gray ghost of my hand”
― Ted
Kooser, Delights and Shadows
“If
your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start
telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the
traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow.
Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song.
"We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a
merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a
happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry!”
―
Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
“Shade
for a man
And
shelter for animals,
Planted
in your name,
May
you be the same for those around you,
Every
year the same.”
―
Nancy J. Cavanaugh, This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
“Someone
asked me when is my birthday?
The
poet inside me replied,
"My
birthday is on the last day of the year,
It's
31st December my dear!”
―
Anamika Mishra
“A
little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could
hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief.”
―
Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price
“The
Day You're Born is Not The Day You Grow, It's The Day You Evolve. The
Revolution Is Up To You.”
―
Goitsemang Mvula
“I've
completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of
delights has completed me.”
―
Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
“This
is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for
bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was
her desire to be the first to wish me a happy birthday, I always got a 5:30am
phone call from her. I'm an early riser, but not that early. Yet even when my
birthday fell on a Saturday, or Sunday, I loved getting that call. There are so
many things you miss about a loving mother, especially on the first birthday
you have without her.”
―
Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
“A
present. Wrapped in black crepe paper and tied with silver thread. And beside
it, smiling down at me, was Rhys.
He'd
propped his head on a fist, his wings draped across the bed behind him. 'Happy
birthday, Feyre darling.'
I
groaned. 'How are you smiling after all that wine?'
'I
didn't have a whole bottle to myself, that's how.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight
“Every
human's birth starts with crying; it becomes its Birthday every year; one
celebrates it with dears and cheers, one with fears and tears.”
―
Ehsan Sehgal
“Some
people celebrate birthdays and expect to be told, Happy Birthday to mark
another year of getting older while others celebrate achievements and receive
congratulations to mark another milestone. We are different, but happy birthday
to you.”
―
Niedria Dionne Kenny, Phenomenally Me: My Sweet 2016™
