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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8829da1 | I stalked you. Don't be mad. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 536179b | More clumsily,he put his arm around her and tried to hug. They were definitely amateurs at showing affection. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 9cb4db0 | Summer. That long lovely world of slow days and late nights, warm air and friendly sun. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 7fd73a4 | Reeve loved that Janie would make the plans. She'd make a list, he'd follow it, that would be that. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 949d190 | In a civil war," he said gently, "people forget that they are people. Next they forget anyone else is a person. They forget how to be kind. They learn to hurt. In our wars, they might execute you, but usually they chop hands off, so that you suffer before you die. If you live, you are helpless and must depend on others." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 31b7b30 | He felt enormously tired, as if he were an autumn leaf and his season were over. He felt ready to fall from the branch. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| cbdfe4a | Sometimes, when he was older, and especially after he became taller than his mother, he would put his arms around her and silently hold her, and feel her pain right through the fold of his embrace. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 177f3aa | Foster children could pack quickly. Every move Matt had ever made took only minutes, whereas when real people moved, they spent weeks getting ready, filling huge vans and leaving a trail of cardboard cartons across an entire yard. One suitcase, one box, one duffel bag, one bookbag, and Matt would be done. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| a7916cf | Michael sat down next to her. She was too startled to be polite. "Michael! What are you doing here? Where did you come from?" | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 233a138 | Jared never prayed, because the idea of a loving God seemed out of sync with the facts of the world. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1261e65 | Michael took pictures of everybody. "We'll want to remember this," he told Janie." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 8708ac6 | arms, her black African arms, with | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 0a224d8 | Her name was Janie and she loved her shoes and she loved her doggy back home and basically she loved everything. Hannah quickly tired of this kid's happiness. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| f651d25 | Her eye was caught by a pile of red hair on the seat next to her. She had forgotten about the stupid little girl. She could not remember what her plans had been. What was she supposed to do with this burden? | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1e8d5bc | they were not six people knit close in tight, warm threads of family, but travelers accidentally in the same motel. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| c9f0b9b | No boy to swagger down the hall with his arm around her, boasting with his walk that he dated this girl. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| adf68a7 | I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." ~Ned Vizzini" | Scott Leopold | ||
| 7a13c3d | I decided that you didn't really need money, power, success, religion, a spouse, or kids to be happy. All you really needed was to feel superior. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 90222b9 | O seu problema e que voce tem uma visao de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressao. -- Ned Vizzini, Uma historia meio que engracada | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2881f3f | I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I HAD incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I was the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It'll be like a miracle w.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e3901b6 | O seu problema e que voce tem uma visao de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressao. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 15ca045 | It wasn't meant to be. Or maybe it was meant not to be. | life-quotes life-lessons | Ned Vizzini | |
| 4356b60 | I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it | young-adult mental-health | Ned Vizzini | |
| a24f213 | Life is not cured. Life is managed. | life-quotes | Ned Vizzini | |
| b74fa83 | I was lying to this person; that meant we really knew each other. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 96278da | but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. | young-adult depression regrets mental-health | Ned Vizzini | |
| c146d3a | Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being. | life-quotes | Ned Vizzini | |
| 54626d1 | It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside. | depression funny-story ned-vizzini depression-quotes | Ned Vizzini | |
| 607e37f | Obstacles are those frightening things that appear when we take our mind off our goals | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7a67f1c | And I always look like I'm about to cry. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e10184e | And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 9b3b63e | I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." -- | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e673c00 | I learn something I didn't know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5b13623 | Wayan laughed and kissed her daughter, all the sadness about the divorce suddenly gone from her face. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3567ead | He came bearing not a sword but a candle. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 86499dd | coming at the interview from a | Michael Connelly | ||
| 276e25c | she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth. That's all. That's what I call creative living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3c938c1 | universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels--that's creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place--that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one. The often surprising results of that hunt--that's what I call Big Magic. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fe85ec1 | The chickens look so plump and contented even in death that you imagine they offered themselves up for sacrifice proudly, after competing among themselves in life to see who could become the moistest and the fattest. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4f10888 | Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: "What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b05ab1c | As a #girlcrush of mine, Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in her epic book Big Magic, fear will always show up when we strive for great things and take risks because "fear hates uncertain outcome...This is all totally natural and human." It will always show up, and she thankfully adds, "It's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of." | Romi Neustadt | ||
| 3138a92 | It doesn't have to be perfect, and you don't have to be Plato. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9a2fb3e | history--what had happened between me and David. Further disregarding the Gilbert Family Standard Communications Rule-book, I actually told her. I told her everything. I told her how much I loved David, but how lonely and heartsick it made me to be with this person who was always disappearing from the room, from the bed, from the planet. "He sounds kind of like your father," she said. A brave and generous admission. "The problem is," I said.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 18bd7ea | The ability to respond is responsibility | Elizabeth Gilbert |