Miranda Kenneally · 306 pages
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“Maybe you don't have to figure life out at all.
Maybe it just is.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“All decisions are different in hindsight. Maybe all we can do is make the best decisions we can in the moment, using the best information we have right then.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“If you don’t put yourself out there, if you don’t take risks, you can’t truly feel.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don't define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“You make me feel three times the rush of skydiving or bungee jumping... I felt the biggest rush of my life when you said you love me.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“I figured you'd prefer that to skydiving or Sumo Wrestling Sunday."
"What is Sumo Wrestling Sunday?"
"We'd dress up in those sumo wrestling suits that would make us look real fat. And then we'd wrestle."
"Oh god lord," I mutter. " Shuffleboard Sunday sounds just fine."
"Good. I had no idea where I was gonna get sumo wrestling suits." I give him a look.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“Is life one big long what if?”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for something called the Presidential Fitness Test. I’d huff and puff and wonder why the hell President Bush cared how fast I could run laps around the playground. I always came in dead last.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“I love you.” I laugh. “You already said that.” “I’ve never said it before. I like it…I think I’ll keep saying it.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday's trining session. Until then, I wasn't aware Usain Bolt was my running coach”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“Everything is about balance…it took me so long to figure that out.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“We stick together, and it makes me feel a little better knowing that, even at thirty-two, Liza hasn’t figured her life out yet.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“They do, in fact, have a pool, but no waterslide. Probably couldn’t afford one after buying that naked mermaid statue.”
― Miranda Kenneally, quote from Breathe, Annie, Breathe
“My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“Hellboy?”
“What?”
“Touch me. Make me forget all this.”
He was on her in an instant, took her down to the floor before she could blink.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Pleasure Unbound
“The FBI and the Secret Service each published reports in the first three years, guiding faculty to identify serious threats. The central recommendations contradicted prevailing post-Columbine behavior. They said identifying outcasts as threats is not healthy. It demonizes innocent kids who are already struggling. It is also unproductive. Oddballs are not the problem. They do not fit the profile. There is no profile. All the recent school shooters shared exactly one trait: 100 percent male. (Since the study a few have been female.) Aside from personal experience, no other characteristic hit 50 percent, not even close. “There is no accurate or useful ‘profile’ of attackers,” the Secret Service said. Attackers came from all ethnic, economic, and social classes. The bulk came from solid two-parent homes. Most had no criminal record or history of violence. The two biggest myths were that shooters were loners and that they “snapped.” A staggering 93 percent planned their attack in advance. “The path toward violence is an evolutionary one, with signposts along the way,” the FBI report said.”
― Dave Cullen, quote from Columbine
“I’d never before been infatuated with someone living, someone real.”
― Gail Carson Levine, quote from The Two Princesses of Bamarre
“As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from My Man Jeeves
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