“Everyone isn’t logical. Everything doesn’t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind, because otherwise they will drag you straight down.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“This girl wasn’t tapping her fingers restlessly, though. Her movements were methodical. Synchronized. Sitting far enough to the left of her to study her profile, I watched her chin bob, so subtly it was almost undetectable – and at some point, I realized that when her expression was remote and her fingers were moving, she was hearing music. She was playing music.
It was the most magical thing I’d ever seen anyone do.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings ~ Lao Tzu.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“This ink will make your skin yours again. Maybe someday, you'll see that your skin isn't you. It's just what houses you while you're here.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Luck could be earned and created. It could be discovered. It could be regained. After all - I'd found this girl. I'd found my future. I'd found forgiveness. My mother would have been happy for me...”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie of all--that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what's coming and neither do they.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I wanted to put on earphones and plug into her and know what she was hearing when her fingers performed.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“She’d conjured love in the heart of a man whose soul had been frozen for years, anesthetized by too much pain and guilt to bear.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in love with her.
He'd always insisted that it was definitely her sass.
I knew the truth. He fell for all those things, and when she died, it was like someone had extinguished the sun, and he had nothing left to orbit.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating-- something that shattered your self-confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to pieces or shoved it out of sight for years-- I don't care how you got here. Every day you are stronger. Every day you are healing. Every day that you survive, you are telling that event, that person, that illness, that memory: YOU DO NOT DEFINE ME. Keep on.
-- Acknowledgements”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“The night we met –’ I’m not him. I’m not him. ‘I’m not like that guy.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Watching her made my heart ache, as if that organ had become linked to her emotional state, rather than targeting its primary task—keeping me alive.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“He fell for all those things, and when she died, it was like someone had extinguished the sun, and he had nothing left to orbit.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I shook to my core, my soul curving around her protectively as my mind strove to determine the logical calculation that could make her mine. I wanted to be hers as much—more—than I wanted to possess her, when I knew damned well that neither was possible.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“The night we met –’ ‘I’m not like that guy.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“The little kids by the water threw their hands in the air and squealed, chasing each other in circles.
It was hard to believe that I’d ever been that small. That young. That happy and clueless. They had
pain ahead. Heartbreak. Loss. They didn’t know and I didn’t want them to – but at the same time, I
hated that I hadn’t known. I’d taken everything for granted – my mother, my friends in Alexandria,
playing hockey. I dreamed about the future because that’s what people persuade you to do when
you’re a kid, but that’s the biggest lie of all – that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue
what’s coming and neither do they”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Having pretty much burned every bridge he crossed, our friendship was like a malfunction of his usually deficient people skills.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“When I was a child, I sometimes wondered if you were my guardian angel. Now that I’m older I know that you are.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I’d always defined jealousy as coveting what someone else has.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Then she told me her name, which I forgot immediately, and launched into a monologue of enmity concerning the girl who'd bumped her. I didn't know either of them, and I couldn't have cared less about their blood feud, which concerned either a guy or a pair of shoes--I couldn't determine which in my state of I don't give a shit.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I dreamed about the future because that’s what people persuade you to do when you’re a kid, but that’s the biggest lie of all – that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what’s coming and neither do they.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“when your parents tell you someone has gone to heaven, that person is never, ever coming back.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“Because having the ability to make my skin my own again saved my life.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
“I would be her bad boy, if that’s what she wanted. If that’s what she needed.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Breakable
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“Rape culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards women’s rights and safety. Rape culture affects every woman. Most women and girls limit their behavior because of the existence of rape. Most women and girls live in fear of rape. Men, in general, do not. That’s how rape functions as a powerful means by which the whole female population is held in a subordinate position to the whole male population, even though many men don’t rape, and many women are never victims of rape.”
― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Men Explain Things to Me
“I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.”
― Michelle Stimpson, quote from Boaz Brown
“We have to go through some trials and tribulations. Something to test our love, make it strong and worthy. And… and… he has to be daring and very masculine. Powerful. People must respect him, maybe even fear him. Graceful too and lithe, like a… like a cat! Or a lion. Or something like that. And he has to be a good lover. The best, so good he could almost make love to me just by using his eyes.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Three Wishes
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. ”
― Luo Guanzhong, quote from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1: (with footnotes and maps) (Romance of the Three Kingdoms (with footnotes and maps))
“He kisses me, his lips finding mine, and I don’t need to breathe anymore. His mouth on mine is all I need. His hands holding me tight is all I need. Just him. He is everything.”
― quote from Collateral
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