“Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underneath.
Acting right is better than looking right.
Realize what make you special beyond looks.
Evil can look pretty on the outside.”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
“You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
“Snagging the ball from Pietr, Derek leaned in and snapped, “What? You
think you’re a bad-ass because you’ve got a tattoo?”
Derek body-checked Pietr with a force that would have sent anybody else onto the floor. Pietr wobbled but didn’t even move his feet to compensate. A minute later Derek skidded across the gym floor. Pietr was methodically dribbled and passed the ball between them. I saw him mouth the phrase “That’s why I’m a bad-ass!”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
“What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
“Get the Girl," he demanded. "She knows too much!"
Dammit. Why did people keep presuming that, and if it was true, why the hell couldn't my GPA reflect the fact?”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
“Holy Hell! That was totally badass”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
Shannon Delany
Born place: Reading, PA, The United States
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“Why did you date all of those girls?”
“Sometimes, you’re just looking for something that’s right.”
Oh, it was a line. It was so a line. But it was a good line.”
― Chelsea Fine, quote from Sophie & Carter
“He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.”
― Gish Jen, quote from Typical American
“A child, she reasoned, does not pick its parents nor the circumstances of its birth. A”
― James Conroyd Martin, quote from Push Not the River
“A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.”
― Toni Morrison, quote from Tar Baby
“In love and mating, ambience is central.”
― Norman Rush, quote from Mating
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