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
“Haven sighed. Then shrugged. "He's the best man I know, but he believes himself to be the worst. He sees himself as some...monster." She narrowed her eyes, watching Cole, thinking how best to help him. "I don't know how to change that.”
― Ronie Kendig, quote from Crown of Souls
“Now her hair is like the nights of disunion and separation and her face like the days of union and delectation; She hath a nose like the edge of the burnished blade and cheeks like purple wine or anemones blood-red: her lips as coral and carnelian shine and the water of her mouth is sweeter than old wine; its taste would quench Hell's fiery pain. Her tongue is moved by wit of high degree and ready repartee: her breast is a seduction to all that see it (glory be to Him who fashioned it and finished it!); and joined thereto are two upper arms smooth and rounded; She hath breasts like two globes of ivory, from whose brightness the moons borrow light, and a stomach with little waves as it were a figured cloth of the finest Egyptian linen made by the Copts, with creases like folded scrolls, ending in a waist slender past all power of imagination; based upon back parts like a hillock of blown sand, that force her to sit when she would fief stand, and awaken her, when she fain would sleep, And those back parts are upborne by thighs smooth and round and by a calf like a column of pearl, and all this reposeth upon two feet, narrow, slender and pointed like spear-blades, the handiwork of the Protector and Requiter, I wonder how, of their littleness, they can sustain what is above them.”
― quote from The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
“That is why I refuse to shutter the windows. We need more light. Even a flower withers without sunshine.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Queen's Poisoner
“But you decided I was going to fail before I even had the chance to try.”
― Helen Harper, quote from Slouch Witch
“Yo tengo miedo. Tengo miedo de una cosa, de que en nuestra vida el miedo ocupe el lugar del amor.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, quote from Voces de Chernóbil: Crónica del futuro
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