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"Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you--just a tad--off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much--too tiring--and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy...or whatever...to happen."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

tags: accurate
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"You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

118 people liked it

""We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together."
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— Deb Caletti (Honey, Baby, Sweetheart)

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"Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control."
— Deb Caletti

tags: love
22 people liked it

"I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay."
— Deb Caletti

tags: forgiveness
18 people liked it

"But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of."
— Deb Caletti

19 people liked it

""Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes.
"No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit."
— Deb Caletti (The Nature of Jade)

6 people liked it

"This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.""
— Deb Caletti (The Fortunes of Indigo Skye)

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"In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser..."
— Deb Caletti (The Fortunes of Indigo Skye)

tags: humorous
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"I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss."
— Deb Caletti (The Fortunes of Indigo Skye)

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"Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt."
— Deb Caletti (Honey, Baby, Sweetheart)

tags: baby, caletti, deb, honey, peach, sweetheart
3 people liked it

"So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)"
— Deb Caletti (The Fortunes of Indigo Skye)

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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,573 people liked it

"Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground."
— Deb Caletti

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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
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"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women
228 people liked it

"Women only nag when they feel unappreciated."
— Louis de Bernières (Corelli's Mandolin)

tags: women
94 people liked it

"It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts."
— Patricia Briggs

tags: blood, dragon, humor
58 people liked it

"Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
— Patricia Briggs (Cry Wolf)

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"Civilization is vastly overrated."
— Patricia Briggs (On the Prowl (Includes: Alpha & Omega Prequel; World of the Lupi, #3.5; Dorina Basarab Prequel; Monère, #3))

tags: civilization, humor
19 people liked it

"When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her'"
— Patricia Briggs (Masques)

tags: aralorn, epitaph, humor, masques
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"Intelligent men are dangerous."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

tags: humor, intelligent, men
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"Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both."
— Patricia Briggs (Blood Bound)

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"Being a martyr is highly overrated. "
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

tags: martyr
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"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Blood)

tags: change, mind, summer, winter
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""Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Adam asked as we went back upstairs.
"Sometime," I told him. " When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.""
— Patricia Briggs (Bone Crossed)

tags: adam, bone, crossed, humor, mercy
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"It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

tags: ghosts
7 people liked it

"It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again."
— Orson Scott Card (The Folk of the Fringe)

tags: women
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"Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes."
— Mae West

tags: justice, women
85 people liked it

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain hes not the man she married?"
— Barbra Streisand

tags: husbands, marriage, men, wives, women
62 people liked it

"To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism."
— Gregory Hartley (I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language)

tags: men, women
20 people liked it

"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia, men, peabody, women
251 people liked it

"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
— Margaret Thatcher

tags: men, women
330 people liked it

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

tags: women
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""Behind every successful woman, are three more egging her on!""
— Catherine Leyen

tags: women
37 people liked it

"It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me."
— Marisa de los Santos (Belong to Me: A Novel)

tags: humor, women
30 people liked it

"I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

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"I spoke, I listened, and my heart broke, which is to say that it didn't break at all but became suddenly aware of its own wholeness in such a way it hurt like hell."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

tags: in, love, walked
7 people liked it

"People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other."
— Marisa de los Santos (Belong to Me: A Novel)

tags: love
6 people liked it

"But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

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"Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist. . . Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved. "
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

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