“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“Didn’t being out in the storm scare you?”
“Try a couple of high-summer prairie storms in a trailer,” she mused. “That either makes you terrified of them or indifferent to them.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take me away from the gypsy caravan that was my life, and give me hot meals, a decent dress, and a pony.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were—like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set—some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes—and their once-large fortune—could have accomplished . . . they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“The frizzy and dowdy was because I had let little things in my life slide. The stuttering was because I was nervous around you.”
“Why aren't you now?”
“I don't have a crush on you anymore,” she retorted.
Silence.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“She deserved some real breaks in her life. And he intended on giving her every one he could.
Even if she stole his lunch again.
With a grin, he sat down to work.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
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“Najniebezpieczniejszą, choć całkiem oddzielną sprawą, przed którą chciał mnie przestrzec najbardziej, a która posłała w opary szaleństwa całe kompanie młodych biedaczyn, było czytanie książek. Ten niedobry zwyczaj nasila się ostatnimi czasy, stąd więc niewypowiedziana wdzięczność ojca, że nie wykazałem do tej pory takich tendencji. Szpitale psychiatryczne są przepełnione ludźmi, którzy czytają zbyt dużo. Kiedyś byli - tak jak my - silni fizycznie, otwarci, zadowoleni i zrównoważeni. Potem zaczęli czytać. Najczęściej przez przypadek. Jakieś przeziębienie, wymagające kilku dni leżenia w łóżku. Ładna okładka wzbudzająca ciekawość. I nagle rodzi się zły nawyk. Pierwsza książka prowadzi do następnej. I następnej, i jeszcze jednej, ogniwa w łańcuchu, który wiedzie prosto w dół, w wieczny mrok choroby psychicznej. Po prostu nie można przestać. To gorsze niż narkotyk.”
― Mikael Niemi, quote from Popular Music from Vittula
“I have always been dismayed by the West’s failure—or unwillingness—to recognize that establishing secular schools that offer children a balanced and nonextremist form of education is probably the cheapest and most effective way of combating this kind of indoctrination.”
― Greg Mortenson, quote from Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“Everyone has connections. For some it's family, like my brother and I. For some it's friendship, like you and Wes. And for others, it's something much more powerful, something yet to be seen.”
― Abra Ebner, quote from Book of Love
“The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
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