Young Quotes
At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.
Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.
All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.
Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief
The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.
Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?” “Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful. “Because you’re an arrogant little shit.
Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?
I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in the night air, the rotten night air, and I miss, I miss, I miss.
If an angel could admit she was wrong about a vampire, maybe there was hope forthe werepanthers in East Hampton after all.
So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?”“Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.
Oh, Alan Ryves, " she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.
I don't have deal breakers, " Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.
Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.
I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.
If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.excerpt from: freefalling
For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone.
I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.
Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.
He hoots as he passes. Another one whistles. I know this is stupid, inviting trouble. But it feels so good to be wanted, I can't help myself.
I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.
...I would want to spend it with you. Even if we had thousands of nights, I would want to spend every single one of them with you.
Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
My whole world started to tilt. I could feel it, sliding ever so slightly off center.
I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That's why he makes me stand out here in the cold. - excerpt from: freefalling
In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief
This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” - Esme from Sister Mischief
Nothing monumental happened, the earth didn’t shake, and lightning didn’t strike. There was just a simple moment of raw emotion, unbridled and exposed to the daylight.
His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.
We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?
I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.
Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.
I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
I promise I'll protect you now. I won't let them touch you again. " "I know you'll try." I can do more than try.
I promise I'll take care of you, " he whispers. "You're safe with me." Even with an army of motorcycle guys outside that door, I firmly believe him.
She's my girl now and I'll do anything for her at any time. I'm in love with her.
The most dangerous guy at my school-the lone person who makes me feel safe-is reveling in the way I am touching him.
...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.
Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.
May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.