“If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“Nobody gets to pick what life gives them”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“Life went on whether people participated in it or not”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“I'll never take it for granted again. I'll always be grateful for every spring that comes along.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“You're going to live your life. You're going to honor him doing things you would have done if he'd never gotten sick and died”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“He doesn't teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“Kyle held out his hand and Reid shook it like a good sport, but he made sure to add a little extra pressure and a meaningful stare in the universal male Don’t-f**k-with-this-chick-or-I’ll-eat-your-heart-for-breakfast-with-my-Wheaties look.”
― Gina L. Maxwell, quote from Seducing Cinderella
“There never was a story that was happy through and through.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, quote from Blood Red, Snow White
“Overhead, the Amerikano planes buzz by, great birds swooping down with a vengeance. But who is winning? I cannot imagine the Amerikanos will win. How can they? They have lost once before, and how will they resupply themselves when their country is so far away? The Japanese need only jump north and they will be home. How I wish they would both go home.”
― Tess Uriza Holthe, quote from When the Elephants Dance
“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”
― Ben Carson, quote from Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty.”
― Andrea Dworkin, quote from Intercourse
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