“Never make eye contact with a stranger when you’re having a churro.”
― quote from All My Life
“Breathless I look up at him and find him gazing at me with a wonder that my deep-seated insecurity finds hard to believe. Then he does this thing. His fingers start moving on my face, tracing outlines. They trail along my eyebrows, the ridge of my nose, the apple of my cheeks and the line of my jaw. His touch is like feather but his eyes…they blaze and just like that, without saying a single word, he makes me believe.”
― quote from All My Life
“You know when you mix butt and Angel in the same sentence, it becomes an insult,” I say and take a big gulp from the can. With his back to me, he says, “Trust me, I would never dream of insulting your butt. I’m sure it’s better than anything I’m cooking out here.”
― quote from All My Life
“After a few seconds of scraping, I realize what he has isn’t a trail, it’s a whole forest! Ack! Weren’t all men supposed to shave their chest and stuff nowadays? Whatever happened to having fuzz-free Hollywood heroes as role models? At least my embarrassment is completely foregone by the irritation at his lack of upkeep. The only thing distracting me now is that heady mix of musk, shaving cream and a distinctly…male scent. And God knows that is one seriously jeopardizing distraction. Especially with a whizzing needle in one’s hand.”
― quote from All My Life
“Neil Mars?! I could blame him for having killer looks but he could not be faulted for this. He couldn’t have chosen that name for himself. No wonder he tortures his Mom by calling her by her name.”
― quote from All My Life
“Maybe that’s why I like reading fantasy novels so much. The world in there is so much more interesting than mine.”
― quote from All My Life
“Neil’s not a bad guy, Mom. He just looks like one. It’s like he has the mystery but…not the deceit.” “Looks like Nine Inch Nails but sings like Michael Bolton?” “Who’s Michael Bolton?”
― quote from All My Life
“it. “She’s got AIDS!” Mom’s mouth pops open and she flops back on the couch as if the air just got kicked out of her lungs. “AIDS?” she whispers. I nod my head and she gives me a sharp look. “How?” “From a local clinic in Africa. She fell sick on vacation.”
― quote from All My Life
“Oh God! Please. Just please. Blind me, kill me, just…just end it. I’m so tired. Too tired to do it on my own.”
― quote from All My Life
“As a little girl your mind is filled with snow white, dwarfs, wizards, then you grow up and you realize you’ve got it all wrong. Life’s the dead opposite of a fairy tale. It’s”
― quote from All My Life
“But aren’t you going to miss it? The fame? The money?” He smiles. “Those are just things one misses when one hasn’t had a taste of them. Trust”
― quote from All My Life
“that’s why people often compare love to drugs. It’s”
― quote from All My Life
“The more you taste it, the more you crave it...wait a second...taste?!”
― quote from All My Life
“Is he the one? The Neo to my Trinity?”
― quote from All My Life
“So last night I was watching TV and they had this movie on. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. This girl loves this guy on e-mail and hates the same guy in person? But she doesn’t know they’re both the same and when she realizes, she thinks she hates his guts. Only he gives this epic romantic monologue in the end and so she decides she can’t help but fall in love with him,” Nalini”
― quote from All My Life
“Your Dad called and he said you’re not replying to any of his e-mails or returning his calls. Why is that?”
― quote from All My Life
“Your Dad called and he said you’re not replying to any of his e-mails or returning his calls. Why is that?” I shrug my shoulders in response.”
― quote from All My Life
“Όταν η παραβίαση ενός ταμπού δεν έχει σαν συνέπεια την τιμωρία του ένοχου, οι πρωτόγονοι βλέπουν να ξυπνά μέσα τους ομαδικά η απειλή κάποιου κινδύνου και τότε εφαρμόζουν οι ίδιοι την τιμωρία. Ο μηχανισμός αυτής της αλληλεγγύης εξηγείται με το με το φόβο του μεταδοτικού παραδείγματος, της παρακίνησης στη μίμιση και της μολυσματικής φύσης του ταμπού. Όταν κάποιος κατόρθωσε να ικανοποιήσει έναν απωθημένο ποθο, τα άλλα μέλη της ομάδας νιώθουν τον πειρασμό να κάνουν το ίδιο και για να τον καταστειλουν τιμωρούν αυτόν που έχει νοιώσει αυτήν την ικανοποίηση και τον φθονούν. Κι έτσι, με το πρόσχημα της εξιλέωσης, έχουν την ευκαιρία να διαπράξουν κι αυτοί την ίδια ανόσια πράξη. Αυτή η βασική αρχή του ανθρώπινου ποινικού συστήματος, απορρέει από τους απωθημένους πόθους κι απ'την εκδίκηση στ' όνομα μιας κοινωνίας που έχει προσβληθεί.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from Totem and Taboo
“The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.”
― Kiersten White, quote from And I Darken
“All he saw was madness and bloodlust and jealousy carved onto countless bleeding and mangled faces.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner Series
“Get away out of my country at once, and for ever, miserable creature, lest I take your life, and so rid myself of your malice.”
― Andrew Lang, quote from The Blue Fairy Book
“He had never once felt itchy, in the way that two connecting pieces of a jigsaw never felt itchy, as far as one could tell. If one were to imagine, for the sake of argument, that jigsaw pieces had thoughts and feelings, then it was possible to imagine them saying to themselves, 'I'm going to stay here. Where else would I go?' And if another jigsaw piece came along, offering its tabs and blanks enticingly in an attempt to lure one of the pieces away, it would be easy to resist temptation. 'Look,' the object of the seducer's admiration would say. 'You're a bit of telephone box, and I'm the face of Mary, Queen of Scots. We just wouldn't look right together.' And that would be that.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Juliet, Naked
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