“What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before?
-Jacky Faber”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though.”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“It's easier bein' a boy, 'cause when someone needs somethin' done like holdin' a horse, they'll always pick a boy 'cause they think the dumbest boy will be better at it than the brightest girl, which is stupid, but there you are.”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves.
you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy.
I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“I have resolved that each morning when I wake up from now on, I will take three long breaths and think about each of them as I draw them in and let them out, and I will remember that time at the end of that rope when I could not draw such breaths. And then I will look at the blue veins in my wrists and will know that my blood is running through them, and for that I will be grateful. Amen. The”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“It was enough to get along on till somethin’ better come along, but what come along was Death and nothin’ better. Maybe”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“Love is gentle and love is kind, The sweetest flower when first it’s new, But love grows old, And waxes cold, And fades away, like the morning dew Pretty”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack
“And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from A Countess Below Stairs
“everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!”
― Leslie Feinberg, quote from Stone Butch Blues
“Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, quote from Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
“The next second, her cellphone rang. It was Neeru again, saying how their mom was getting restless and the fact that, by now, she knew well enough that Khushi had not been to IMS but somewhere else with me. She also said that it was raining heavily in Faridabad. And all that Khushi told her was to manage the situation somehow, ‘Tell her that I am stuck in the rain.’ Sweet Neeru was bouncing like a shuttle between her mother and her sister. This is the fate of being the youngest in the family—everyone”
― Ravinder Singh, quote from I Too Had a Love Story
“Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any other. If you can kill me, the manner hardly bears consideration. You want to kill your own father, and you think it will make your sleep easier for the next seventy years if you can say you did it honorably. But your honor is blackened by patricide, and no amount of high-sounding formalities will make it white again.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, quote from In the Night Garden
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