L. Duarte > L.'s Quotes

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.”
― Ryan Winfield, South of Bixby Bridge

“I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.”
― Ryan Winfield, South of Bixby Bridge

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. 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.”
― Steve Jobs

“I hated that he made me feel. But, mostly, I worried about the haze clouding my mind whenever he was around.”
― L. Duarte, Fall Out Girl

“We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbeat against heartbeat.
We fit perfectly together.”
― L. Duarte, Fall Out Girl

“The tricky thing about fear is: It wears a different mask every day.”
― L. Duarte, Fall Out Girl

“I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.”
― L. Duarte, Fall Out Girl

“I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at sounding strong.
The truth is: I was just a lost girl. Someone who was clueless on how to get out of the hole she’d dug for herself.
I didn’t want to be the way I was. I wanted to be normal.”
― L. Duarte, Fall Out Girl

“You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb”
― L. Duarte, Fall Out Girl

“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS an oppression olympics going on. American racial minorities - blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Jews - all get shit from white folks, different kinds of shit but shit still. Each secretly believes that it gets the worst shit. So, no, there is no United League of the Oppressed. However, all the others think they're better than blacks because, well, they're not black.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“God I love you.” “Hold on to that thought for the next ninety years.”
― Santana Blair, And She Called Him Romeo

“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron