“When you have the same dream over and over again, your brain is trying to solve a problem. It knows there's an answer.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate.”
“And the other half?”
He had her now. “You have to choose the right side.”
“Your side, you mean.” She bristled.
“No, the losing side.”
“What?”
“Always choose the weaker side.”
“Why would I do that?” Doubt edged her voice, but now she was sitting erect, her feet flat on the floor.
“Because then you have further to go to prove your case.” He eased the feet of his chair down. “In a debate, there are two sides. If both make a good argument, then the less popular side wins because that side had further to go to prove its point. Simple logistics.”
“If you don’t care which side wins.” She frowned.
“It’s a debate. It doesn’t matter which side wins.”
“You mean it doesn’t matter to you.” The tone in her voice unsettled him. Or maybe it was the fact that that her criticism disturbed him at all.
“It’s a class,” he said. “The point is to flesh out the different sides of an argument.”
“And you don’t care if the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Don’t you believe in anything?!”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Don't care he reminded himself. Because if he didn't care she couldnt hurt him”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“If you get stuck and are not sure what to do, try something.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Gregory: Go to hell.
Dane: I'd be glad to leave you in it.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Please be aware that your exam scores provide you only with your entrance into the school. They do not ensure your ability to stay.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Your mother never considered giving you up.
”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“But there was a constant willingness to take out a
topic, test it, shake it apart, mix up the pieces, and test them again.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Dane: Damn it, Aerin you don't have a plane
Aerin: I'll take yours.
Dane: The hell you will!”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
“Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.”
― Anne Osterlund, quote from Academy 7
Anne Osterlund
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“While all women are wicked, not all are weak.”
― quote from Stray
“What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those running messengers of the Gospel had to say. Nobody else except those messengers has any Gospel; nobody else has any good news; for the simple reason that nobody else has any news.
Those runners gather impetus as they run. Ages afterwards they still speak as if something had just happened. They
have not lost the speed and momentum of messengers; they have hardly lost, as it were, the wild eyes of witnesses. In the Catholic Church, which is the cohort of the message, there are still those headlong acts of holiness that speak of something rapid and recent; a self-sacrifice that startles the world like a suicide. But it is not a suicide; it is not pessimistic; it is still as optimistic as St. Francis of the flowers and birds. It is newer in spirit than the newest schools of thought; and it is almost certainly on the eve of new triumphs. For these men serve a mother who seems to grow more beautiful as new generations rise up and call her blessed. We might sometimes fancy that the Church grows younger as the world grows old.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Everlasting Man
“Ensuring that our home planet is healthy and life sustaining is an overwhelming priority that undercuts all other human activities. The ship must first float.
Our failure to grasp these fundamental tenants of existence will be our undoing. And one thing is for certain. No calvary is going to come charging to our rescue. We are going to have to rescue ourselves or die trying.
Workable solutions are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. The real issue is our elementary accord with Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms has to be revitalized and re-understood.
The burning question is, How?”
― Lawrence Anthony, quote from Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
“Татуировките са нови белези, избрани от теб. Вкарваш нещо между своята кожа и съдбата. Глътка кураж.”
― Margaret Mazzantini, quote from Twice Born
“For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realisation is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt”
― Elizabeth Bowen, quote from The Death of the Heart
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Girl, Interrupted
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