“… his light to my dark. His truth to my lies. His sacrifices to my selfishness.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Never forget. I know that you know.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“But people should have the right to become whatever they’re going to be before they are judged and sentenced.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“For the first time in my life, I’m right where I’m supposed to be”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Dead yet?" Gus answered.
I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young."
"Here's hoping.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“I’d see this through to the end… This promise above all others, I will gladly keep.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“It had only taken nine years for the world to change completely… You’d have thought we’d fight harder and stronger.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“The person staring back at me was a stranger. Someone who had taken the girl I was two years ago and stripped her down only to rebuild a different person. Now I was strong, I was capable and smart. They were the good qualities. But I was also calculated, manipulative and selfish. These were the things I promised myself I wouldn't be. After I found him. After we put this right.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“What are appropriate shoes?’ he asked, standing. ‘Shoes you can run for your life in,’ Gus answered helpfully. Then added, unnecessarily, ‘Welcome to the Maggie-verse.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Gus leaned back in his chair, appearing satisfied.
"Good," he said. "Cause Maggie's all the nightmare I can take."
I smiled. "Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me."
He gave me a one-fingered salute”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Good,’ he said. ‘Cause Maggie’s all the nightmare I can take.’
I smiled. ‘Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me.’
He gave me a one-fingered salute.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, quote from Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Child of the Prophecy
“I think I have a vague idea what you were driving at,” she said. “We all of us somehow caught. We born this way or that way and we don’t know why. But we caught anyhow. I born Berenice. You born Frankie. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. Is that what you was trying to say?” “I don’t know,” F. Jasmine said. “But I don’t want to be caught” “Me neither,” said Berenice. “Don’t none of us. I’m caught worse than you is.” F. Jasmine understood why she had said this, and it was John Henry who asked in his child voice: “Why?” “Because I am black,” said Berenice. “Because I am colored. Everybody is caught one way or another. But they done drawn completely extra bounds around all colored people. They done squeezed us off in one corner by ourself. So we caught that first-way I was telling you, as all human beings is caught. And we caught as colored people also. Sometimes a boy like Honey feel like he just can’t breathe no more. He feel like he got to break something or break himself. Sometimes it just about more than we can stand.”
― Carson McCullers, quote from The Member of the Wedding
“A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.”
― Patricia McCormick, quote from Sold
“Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Waste Land and Other Poems
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