Julie Anne Peters · 200 pages
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“No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Everything seems to be working." Except me. I'm broken.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I've never been afraid of the dark. I'm more afraid of the day, of people. I love the night. The solitude. Well, I don't love it. I don't feel love. I hate people, so I hope when I get there it isn't crowded. I hope the light is a momentary phenomenon and the other side is completely black. And silent.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I had to fight so hard not to cry.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason to sing.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs to know. Secrets in my present that might kill Kim and Chip. I don't want to take my secrets with me when I go. When I pass through the light, i want to be free of everything and everyone.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I just want the pain to end.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“The sad truth is, they should never trust me.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Julie Anne Peters
Born place: in Jamestown, New York, The United States
Born date January 16, 1952
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“Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.”
― Dallas Willard, quote from The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
“We cannot hope to recapture today the terror that the mounted horse struck into the Middle East and Eastern Europe when it first appeared. That is because there is a difference of scale which I can only compare with the arrival of tanks in Poland in 1939, sweeping all before them. I believe that the importance of the horse in European history has always been underrated. In a sense, warfare was created by the horse, as a nomad activity. That is what the Huns brought, that is what the Phrygians brought, that is what finally the Mongols brought, and brought to a climax under Genghis Khan much later. In particular, the mobile hordes transformed the organisation of battle. They conceived a different strategy of war – a strategy that is like a war game; how, warmakers love to play games!”
― Jacob Bronowski, quote from The Ascent of Man
“When Lauren returned from lunch there were two dozen breathtakingly gorgeous red roses in a vase on her desk. She removed the card from its envelope and stared at it in blank amazement. On it was written "Thank you, sweetheart," followed by the initial J.
When Lauren looked up,Nick was standing in the doorway,his shoulder casually propped against the frame. But there was nothing casual about the rigid set of his jaw or the freezing look in his gray eyes. "From a secret admirer?" he asked sarcastically.
It was the first personal comment he had addressed to her in four days. "Not a secret admirer exactly," she hedged.
"Who is he?"
Lauren tensed. He seemed so angry she didn't think it would be wise to mention Jim's name. "I'm not absolutely certain."
"You aren't absolutely certain?" he bit out. "How many men with the inital J are you seeing? How many of them think you're worth more than a hundred dollars in roses as a way of saying thank you?"
"A hundred dollars?" Lauren repeated, so appalled at the expense that she completely overlooked the fact that Nick had obviously opened the envelope and read the card.
"You must be getting better at it," he mocked crudely.
Inwardly Lauren flinched, but she lifted her chin. "I have much better teachers now!"
With an icy glance that raked her from head to toe,Nick turned on his heel and strode back into his office. For the rest of the day he left her completely alone.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Double Standards
“The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only imagine the tensions and temptations that must have existed in a community—and communities, much though they are based on love, in fact because they are based on love, will always also be full of hatred, rivalry and passion—when it became clear that with sufficiently clever scheming, manipulation, and perhaps a bit of strategic bribery, they could arrange to have almost anyone they hated imprisoned or even hanged.”
― David Graeber, quote from Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“1. Society needs laws. While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept from stealing the conch and killing Piggy. And while it would be nice if that "something" was simple human decency, anybody who has witnessed the "50% Off Wedding Dress Sale" at Filene's Basement knows we need a backup plan—preferably in writing. On the other hand, too many laws can result in outright tyranny, particularly if one of those laws is "Kneel before Zod." Somewhere between these two extremes lies the legislative sweet-spot that produces just the right amount of laws for a well-adjusted society—more than zero, less than fascism.”
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