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“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”
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“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Ever My Merlin
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Ever My Merlin
“I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
― My Merlin Awakening
Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
― My Merlin Awakening
“I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.”
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”
“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”
“You deserved it.”
― My Merlin Awakening
“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”
“You deserved it.”
― My Merlin Awakening
“Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.”
― My Boyfriend Merlin
― My Boyfriend Merlin
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”
― My Merlin Awakening
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”
― My Merlin Awakening
“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”
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“Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenia un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme. Una tremenda congoja fue para mí lo único real en aquellos momentos.”
― Nada
― Nada
“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?”
― My Boyfriend Merlin
― My Boyfriend Merlin
“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.”
― Ever My Merlin
I pictured smacking him in the face.”
― Ever My Merlin
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.”
― Ever My Merlin
― Ever My Merlin
“It was cold out here in this world beyond childhood.”
― The Bat (The Red Grouse Tales) - A coming of age story involving a search after truth, doubt and a bat!
― The Bat (The Red Grouse Tales) - A coming of age story involving a search after truth, doubt and a bat!
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