“This is Karma. I’m a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“It's funny. I don't think boys even know how to hold a grudge.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“It took a long time for me to get better, but I did. I got better. But suddenly it's like the last four years never happened, and I'm feeling all the same terrible feelings about myself that I did back then.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“Although I'm tired, and it feels like years since I had a good night's rest, I can't bring myself to fall asleep. It's like I've forgotten how.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“You can chalk up things to coincide so many times before you have to face the truth.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap?"
My phone buzzes again.
"If so meet at Judy Blue Eyes, 2am. If not, sit back and enjoy the show.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“Her mind can’t go to the dark places mine does.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“I’m sick of waiting for karma. Karma can suck it.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Burn for Burn
“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Fellowship of the Ring
“When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to him either for fear she'll give us the bitter look. We know Dad has done the bad thing and we know you can make anyone suffer by not talking to him. Even little Michael knows that when Dad does the bad thing you don't talk to him from Friday to Monday and when he tries to lift you to his lap you run to Mam.”
― Frank McCourt, quote from Angela's Ashes
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from The Road
“A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.”
― Anthony Burgess, quote from A Clockwork Orange
“I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Vampire Academy
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