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“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them... You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring.”
― J.D. Salinger, Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.”
― Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings