“Money doesn't buy taste, personality, or common decency.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“I’m not sure I want to go to prom. I’m not sure I want to share you with anyone.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“I was stuck in a life I didn't remember, squeezed into the shell of this girl - this Samantha Joe Franco - and the more I learned about her, the more I was starting to hate her.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“I can’t believe it took me this long to be here with you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“I can’t believe you’re actually here. That you are with me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“Screw practice. Our relationship is more important than a damn practice.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“Things aren’t perfect. They are far, far from it,but they are getting there, and I wasn’t looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“I didn't recognize the name on the street sign. Nothing about the rural road looked familiar or friendly. Tall, imposing trees and overgrown weeds choked the front of the dilapidated home. Windows were boarded up. There was a gaping hole where the front door had been. I shivered, wanting to be far away from here… wherever here was.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not proud of it. Even though you didn’t have that damn necklace on, as far as I knew, you were still with Del. And I’m not big on making out with another guy’s girlfriend.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Don't Look Back
“Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled;
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your glory bed,
Or to victory.”
― Joe Haldeman, quote from The Forever War
“There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.”
― John Jakes, quote from North and South
“His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from About a Boy
“Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.”
― Jonathan Franzen, quote from Freedom
“Then he opened the Bible Queen Alexandra had given them and ripped out the flyleaf and the page containing the Twenty-third Psalm. He also tore out the page from the Book of Job with this verse on it:
Out of whose womb came the ice?
And the hoary frost of Heaven, who hath gendered it?
The waters are hid as with a stone.
And the face of the deep is frozen.
The he laid the Bible in the snow and walked away.
It was a dramatic gesture, but that was the way Shackleton wanted it. From studying the outcome of past expeditions, he believed that those that burdened themselves with equipment to meet every contingency had fared much worse than those that had sacrificed total preparedness for speed.”
― quote from Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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