“The world, I sometimes think, is filled with someone liking someone who likes someone else who likes someone else.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“Violence: these days, it is all the rage”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“Some days I am all about the ironic gesture”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“Whatever happens, I will stand beside her. ~Lucius”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“A first kiss, I think, should be important, special. It should be with the person you want to kiss more than anybody in the world.”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted, quote from Crazy Beautiful
“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Our Mutual Friend
“That didn't last long, of course. "Oh Bartimaeus, could you just irrigate the Fertile Cresent?""Could you just divert the Euphrates HERE and HERE?""Look, while you're at it, do you mind just planting a few million wheat seeds up and down the flood plain? Thanks." Didn't even give me a dibble. By the time I got to Ur I wasn't surging with any of that terrible joy, oh no. My back was KILLING me.”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from Ptolemy's Gate
“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Lord help the female population if Kellan and I have a boy one day.”
― S.C. Stephens, quote from Reckless
“Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and trudged up the hillside to a new grave.
She stood there for a moment, humming to herself, then removed a joint from a tortoise-shell cigarette case and laid it gently on the grave.
"Have fun," she smiled. "It's Colombian.”
― Armistead Maupin, quote from Tales of the City
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