Alice Kuipers · 286 pages
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“Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You
“Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You
“I should have been braver myself, shown you it's okay to get hurt along the way.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You
“Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You
“We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You
“Number 40: Love is worth the risk.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You
“Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!”
― Karen Cushman, quote from Catherine, Called Birdy
“Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there’s another family and that’s the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they’re as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don’t have to look out for you and they don’t have to love you. They choose to.” “So”
― Dennis Lehane, quote from The Given Day
“Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Inner Harbor
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
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