“I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one thing-- I do care about you.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Being normal is overrated. Normal gets you what—the dolt husband with the 2.5 kids and the house with the dog? You seriously want that? I mean, one of those kids is going to be really funny looking, by the way, all cut in half like that. Who wants half a kid?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Don’t make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Bad days call for foods that are bad for your butt.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“I'd give up everything for him, but then what? He has no job, I have no money, and we both live in a box. Love sucks.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“The thing is, once something bad happens, there’s no way to undo it. There’s no erase button on life”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn’t. We came to an agreement that hugs are reserved for prolonged partings and death. That’s it. At least, I thought that was our agreement. It seems like she’s figured out how to steal hugs more frequently. Millie’s turned into a hit and run hugger.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“When Peter lets go, he looks down at my arm. The scratches aren't deep. "Did it bite you?" I shake my head and wipe the tears away. Peter is trying so hard not to smile. "What happened? Were you guys fighting over a stall?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Things changed. Maybe I didn't recognize what I felt then, but I do now. I'm a stupid girl who fell in love with her friend, and that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that I'll lose everything if I tell you. This little patch of happiness will wither and die, and it will be all my fault, because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I'd rather have you as a friend than not at all.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Now that I'm ready to move on, I can't. I can't lose my job. I can't be with you, but I can't be without you. God Sidney tonight was one of the best and worst moments of my life. You said you loved me. You love me..." he smiles sadly and shakes his head. "I love you, too. You brought me back to life. You gave me back my smile. You're everything to me, but I can't do this to you -”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“I glance at him, wondering what kind of crazy sauce he ate to sit down next to me in here.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“I want to get past this. I need to. It's been too long. My life is living me.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“He smiles. it nearly breaks my heart. I know that smile. It's a memory that's tainted, something that should have been happy but didn't turn out that way.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“I don't know if other people lay down & die when things go wrong or they harden so much they're no longer alive.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“It's stupid to rush things when you aren't ready.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“I can't speak. I have no voice. I just stare at his dark blue yes. It feels as though I let the lifeboat sail away. I'm drowning in a sea of pain. He reached out, but I can't take his hand.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Well, that's what I'm here for, to save the world from suckage.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Can he tell that I'm fucked up? Can he tell that I've been torn to pieces and put back together again?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Is that code for sex or are we really having coffee?" Peter laughs and feigns shock, putting his hand over his chest. "My God! Is that why all those women at Starbucks keep trying to have coffee with me?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“Maybe I'm too jumpy, too untrusting. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life. I can't just click the delete key and start over.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
“I'm not sure that it's something that can be fixed. There are things like that, ya know? they can get you and you can't be who you were before. It doesn't matter if it's fixed or not.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged
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“fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors—which is the logic of narratives in general—over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“People only believe in heroes when they win.”
― K.M. Weiland, quote from Dreamlander
“The Republic, Plato writes: The stars that decorate the sky, though we rightly regard them as the finest and most perfect of visible things, are far inferior, just because they are visible, to the true realities; that is, to the true relative velocities, in pure numbers and perfect figures, of the orbits and what they carry in them, which are perceptible to reason and thought but not visible to the eye … We shall therefore treat astronomy, like geometry, as setting us problems for solution, and ignore the visible heavens, if we want to make a genuine study of the subject …127 This separation of the absolute and eternal, which can be known by logos (reason), from the purely phenomenological, which is now seen as inferior, leaves an indelible stamp on the history of Western philosophy for the subsequent two thousand years.”
― quote from The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“And I say a final last prayer, this one in gratitude that there are people in the world who will protect kids with a fire that makes them sprint after cars, fight systems, curse with rage. It's enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people.”
― Emery Lord, quote from The Names They Gave Us
“It’s a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave”
― Adele Faber, quote from How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
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