“There’s no such thing as repayment or scorecards in friendship. If you need me, tell me, and I’ll be there no matter what.”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“Because with that one look, I knew you were the girl who could ruin me.”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“I don’t look like the other girls, Camden.” “I know. That’s what makes you perfect.” And just like that, he melted me.”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“A girl like you should never cry unless it’s tears of happiness.”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“There’s no such thing as repayment or scorecards in friendship.”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“I let a few seconds pass by. “I am sure that Macie and Dodger won’t judge you for your eccentric musical tastes. In fact I’m sure they’d sing right along with…AAAAAHHHH!” I screamed as his fingers came down and wiggled against my armpits. I was laughing so hard tears were streaming from my eyes. “Stop, stop, stop!” “Say it.” His voice was gruff but playful. He stopped moving. Taking a deep breath I sang, “Near, far, wherever you are…”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“You’re mine. Tell me you’re mine.” He wants to talk? Like right now?”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“My words came out as barely a whisper. I heard”
― Stacy Borel, quote from Bender
“The whaleman’s rule of thumb was that, before diving, a whale blew once for each minute it would spend underwater. Whalemen also knew that while underwater the whale continued at the same speed and in the same direction as it had been traveling before the dive. Thus, an experienced whaleman could calculate with remarkable precision where a submerged whale was likely to reappear.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, quote from In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
“Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.”
― Władysław Szpilman, quote from The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
“As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.”
― Thomas à Kempis, quote from The Imitation of Christ
“Kell has only two faces. The one he wears for the world at large, and the one he wears for those he loves.” He sipped his wine.
“For us.” Lila’s expression hardened. “Whatever he feels for me, it isn’t love.”
“Because it isn’t soft and sweet and doting?” Rhy rocked back, stretching against the pillar. “Do you know how many times he’s nearly beat me senseless out of love? How many times I’ve done the same? I’ve seen the way he looks at those he hates …” He shook his head. “There are very few things my brother cares about, and even fewer people.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from A Gathering of Shadows
“This high-yield market resembles a nap on a railway track.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, quote from Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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