“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
“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“She was intelligent, accomplished, beautiful. She was everything I could have asked for in a woman. But she was a king maker. She wanted power. She must have thought her only path to the throne was through Kastor.'
'My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.'
'Type?'
'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Captive Prince: Volume Two
“I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright.”
― Ava Dellaira, quote from Love Letters to the Dead
“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”
― Joan Didion, quote from The Year of Magical Thinking
“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you...”
― Benjamin Franklin, quote from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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