Qualify Quotes

“Since when do you check out other girls, girlfriend?” Dawn shrugs. There’s a little shy smile on her face. “Since always.” Laronda gives a loud snort-laugh and puts her hand to her mouth. “Wait, are you—”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“I rise back up to the surface with a kind of solemn quiet peace that comes when you know it’s all over.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“The dreaded November 18, 2048, at around 2:47 PM Eastern Time, plus or minus a few minutes, is when we go Boom.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“All of you who are born here are citizens. You can choose to vote or not, to participate in the making of your society or not—and mostly, you don’t. You can sleepwalk through life and ignore the greater problems around you, as you steep in your own petty personal issues and pass your time casually existing.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“I have told you all this because you matter to him, Lark.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“I do not accept this.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“You can sleepwalk through life and ignore the greater problems around you, as you steep in your own petty personal issues and pass your time casually existing. We, on the other hand, have to prove to ourselves, and to others around us, that we will actively make the effort to shape our society and take responsibility for it, always. And only once we do this, are we citizens. In short—everyone has basic rights, but everyone earns their privileges.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“how is it that you came up with so many clever solutions to what seemed to be impossible problems?” “They weren’t, not really . . . clever, I mean. They were actually kind of crazy and not even well thought out. Stupid, you might say.” I pause, feeling like a fool before an audience of millions. “But—with all factors put together, they worked—for the circumstances. It’s like—you know that old myth about the bee? That, according to ‘physics,’ a bumblebee is not ‘aerodynamic’ enough, is not supposed to be able to fly—it just does because it doesn’t know any better? Well, that’s all nonsense. A bumblebee flies just fine! It flies according to physical laws, only different ones, because it itself is different, using other complex variables for its flight method—for example, something called ‘dynamic stall’ comes into play. . . . Anyway, what I did wasn’t clever but kind of all over the place, using everything at my disposal . . . like the bee. It’s like—if you move fast enough and just the right way—if you do some things quickly and desperately enough, hoping they don’t have time to fall apart on you—you can make the seemingly impossible happen. And it’s not ‘before it knows any better.’ It’s before the whole unstable construct falls apart. Move fast enough and you can walk on water. .”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“We spend the next half an hour doing horrible things with our bodies. We line up and climb the first level of the scaffolding, holding on for dear life, and then we stand there on a three-foot narrow strip that is the ledge that hugs the wall, many of us shaking from a combination of terror and the abuse of previously unused muscle groups.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“One by one, other girls look in his direction. Yeah, Logan has that effect on females—all females. And quite a few guys, I might add.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“Few things are impossible if you know what needs to be done,”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“and suddenly it was all ‘Lord of the Flies’ meets the Battle for Helm’s Deep.”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify

“probably”
― Vera Nazarian, Qualify