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#1

“...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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#2

“An obscure quote might have appealed to her, but Hildy would never get a tattoo. She was afraid of needles and, more importantly, permanence. She liked to think she was still at the pupa stage of existence.”
― Vicki Grant

tags: adolescence, fear, growing-up, humor, observational, self-image

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#3

“Looks counted, although he honestly didn't know which ones or why. He'd have thought smouldering eyes and impressive breasts or shoulders would win every time but that didn't seem to be the case. There were a lot of wild cards in the human sexuality deck.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: appearance, attraction, humour, sexuality

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#4

“I could get in there with a total stranger and do the thirty-six questions and next thing you know I'm hopelessly smitten with some kind of, like, troll or something."
"To the best of my knowledge, no trolls have applied."
"Dumb question."
He hasn't said that. She fiddled with the buttons on her overcoat, then sort of laughed.
"Who am I kidding? The real problem would be if the troll didn't love me back.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: broken-heart, disappointment, humour, love, psychological-experiment, psychology

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#5

“If he knew anything about heterosexual females, he knew that Paul would be a solid 9.5, if not a full 10 for most of them, despite the face his nose had obviously been broken at some point. Or maybe because of the fact. Nothing like a little DANGER: KEEP OUT sign to get some girls scaling the walls.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: adolescence, attraction, bad-boys, broken-hearts, humour, love, young-love

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#6

“PAUL: You're blushing.
HILDY: I am not.
PAUL: Yeah, right. You're just naturally fuchsia.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: attraction, blushing, embarrassment, love

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#7

“I think you're nowhere near as bad as you like to make out...Your smile -- I mean, your smile when you're not being totally obnoxious to me and inexplicably pissed off at the world -- is pretty, like, lovely.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: adolescence, anger, love

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#8

“That's the problem with parents. They keep turning out to be human.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: adolescence, disappointment, families, parents

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#9

“I'd like the ability to see what you're really like underneath all your posing and big words and old man's overcoat or whatever the hell it is you're wearing. You might say 'ethereal' and know what's so goddamn good about kitchen cupboards with no handles, but you're not fooling anyone. You just decided what part of the shitshow you want to make public. My guess is your family is as screwed upas the rest of us.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: adolescence, disfunctional-families, posing, self-awareness-quotesess, ya

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#10

“I hate it when you're going to say something real then chicken out.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: bravery, honesty, love, relationships, ya

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#11

“You want to kiss him. So kiss him. Why haven't you?”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: adolescence, fear, kissing, love, young-love

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#12

“I'm glad you two find this amusing." Hildy scooched toward the table so a man with a howling baby and several canvas bags full of vegetables could get by. "Go ahead. Laugh at me. I don't care."
"We're not laughing at you. We're just laughing. Know why?" Xiu threw her napkin over her plate so she wouldn't be tempted to eat any more. "1) Because we're young and alive and 2) because it's not that big a deal. It's normal. I don't know what it is about surly guys but they make girls do crazy things. Especially so-called 'sensitive' girls. Witness Heathcliff.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: bad-boys, heathcliff, humour, sensitive-people

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#13

“I'm not being stupid. I'm taking an honest look at my life and drawing the obvious conclusions...Lots of people are single their whole lives and are totally fine wit it."
"Sure." Max took her croissant because she clearly wasn't eating it. "The pope, most guidance counsellors -- and who else?”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: guidance-counsellors, humour, sexuality

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#14

“Hildy resisted the urge to suck on the end of her braid. "Look. I know. Paul crossed the line and --"
Xiu raised her hand. "Stop. For starters, don't call him Paul."
"Why? That's his name."
"Too confusing. Pauls are potentially datable. Bobs are retired gym teachers and alcoholic great-uncles and, thus, are not. Stick to Bob. Or Douchebag. Your choice.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: bad-boys, dating, humour, inspirational-quotes, the-meaning-of-names

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#15

“You were fourteen. He was a jerk. Move on." Xiu was slightly uncomfortable because she'd made out with him, too.
"I did move on. Anton. Friesen. And how did that work out?"
"What did you expect? You never tell someone you love them on the third date.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: dating, inspirational-quotes, love

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#16

“He kissed her forehead. She leaned into the crook of his arm. They rode like that for a while and then Hildy said, "Ever feel like a complete screw-up?"
"Yeah. Daily. But I also shit daily. In both cases, I flush, wash my hands, and blame the stink of the last guy.”
― Vicki Grant

tags: advice-for-daily-living, life-hacks, screw-ups

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#17

“He's a moron whose only possible appeal is that he rejected you. Why even worry about him?”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: bad-date, rejection, young-love

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#18

“Other people would feel bad for a while in an oops-silly-me kind of way. You, on the other hand, soak up all the guilt in any given situation. I wish you'd stop. The slurping sound is positively deafening plus -- I hate to say this, sweetheart -- it's giving you a bit of a tummy. Such a pretty girl but positively bloated with guilt.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: guilt, self-awareness, tummy

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#19

“Max waited until Barry went into the back office before tapping the aquarium tank and agitating the fish.
"...here's the truth, Hildy. None of us guys is good enough for you --especially not Neanderbob. You deserve someone who's kind and creative and super hot."
"And straight."
"Yeah, that too. Now shut up for a while and watch. We could all learn something from tropical fish. They're utterly useless and yet content."
"Be still and find your inner guppy."
"Yeah, basically.”
― Vicki Grant

tags: adolescence-wit-wisdom, dating, humour, ya-quotes, young-love

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#20

“She was always impressed by how he'd managed to parlay his special brand of weirdness into instant popularity even among the hockey players and the nursing students and the millionaires-by-thirty crowd.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: humour, weirdness

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#21

“His face was a dizzying mix of grown-up (heavy whiskers and eyebrows and kid (lashes and sparkly parts.)”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: appearance, humour, love

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#22

“Bob: Loyalty's no good if you aren't brave enough to use it. A gun with no bullets.
Hildy: I sense hidden depths. Or did you see that on a bumper sticker somewhere?”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: inspirational-quotes, loyalty, young-love

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#23

“Hildy. You don't want anyone who 'just wanders away.' This is a potential lover, not an Alzheimer's patient. If you dangle your fruit and he can't be bothered to --"
"Don't say 'danger my fruit.' That's revolting."
"Okay. If he's not into you enough for a little flirtatious back-and-forth, he doesn't deserve you."
"But --"
"Just no. Seriously. What are you? Boneless chicken that's passed its best-before date? You don't have to mark yourself down for quick sale.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

tags: dating, humour, inspirational-quote, self-esteem, young-love

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#24

“Problem with you Sangsters is you expect perfect. I never did. It just wasn't an option. You start liking boys in third grade? You know you're no Cossack's idea of the perfect son. Eighty percent of everything Dad's ever said to me involves either thermal units or ratchets, so he's not winning Father of the Year, either...But weirdly we're kind of happier than you guys. We're comfortable with the idea that we're screw-ups. Must be awful just figuring that out now.”
― Vicki Grant

tags: adolescence, humour, inspirational-quotes, teenagers

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#25

“I used to think the truth would be easy to recognize. Undebatable, like your shoe size or the location of the duodenum, but I don't think that anymore. Now I think the truth is more like one of those shape-shifting villains in a sci-fi movie. It somehow manages to be a whole bunch of different things -- opposite things -- at exactly the same time.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

tags: inspirational, truth, truth-telling, ya-books

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#26

“Taking party drugs these days is playing Russian roulette and, unfortunately, your friend was unlucky and took a bullet."
Thanks, Like picturing her with all the tubes sticking out isn't bad enough.”
― Vicki Grant

tags: drugs, police, russian-roulette, teenagers

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#27

“She rubbed her nose with the heel of her hand. She wasn't surprised. Maybe a little hurt or embarrassed to see -- like, actually see -- what a fraud she was, but mostly she was just relieved. She felt herself relax. The weight of having to make the rest of the world happy or proud or even momentarily charmed vanished. She let her eyes close. She had a sense of herself as a little kid again, lying on her back in a pool, floating aimlessly, perfectly content.”
― Vicki Grant

tags: contentment, relaxation, self-awareness, ya

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#28

“She kept tossing stuff out of her backpack until she found a piece of 'origami roadkill.' That's what Jack called the piles of dirty, randomly folded papers she seemed to collect.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

tags: humour, observation

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#29

“Lots of kids screwed up. Lots of kids disappointed their parents. Lots of kids did nothing with their lives. Viv was just having trouble accepting that she was one of them.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

tags: disappointment, letting-down-your-parents, potential, self-help

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#30

“Ever tell you about my bike accident, Stu? Changed my life."
He ignored her.
"Changed. My. Life."
He sighed and dropped his earphones onto his neck. "Okay. Make it quick."
"Know why?...Because I saw something terrible." She blinked into the darkness. She'd been so scared.
"You waiting for a drumroll or something?"
"The truth. That's what I saw."
"Wow. The Dalai Lama. In my cab. Drunk. I'm so honoured.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

tags: alcohol, humour, the-truth, ya

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