“Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Monsters can only live in hiding, covered by darkness and the shame wrapped up in the telling.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Obviously, he psyched you out. He mind-fucked you big time.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“You know, there's reason why certain expressions never go away and endure the test of time. It's because they're as real todaynasnthey were a hundred years ago.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever wad before the pain”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Wishing can bring false hope and then what does that get you?” “Temporary happiness? A little rest from the storm?”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“A pretty face brings people to you, sure,” he agrees. “But it’s the personality and what’s inside that keeps them there. Personally, if I had to choose between a pretty face and a great personality, I’d choose the personality.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Beauty comes from inside, not out.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“It’s like … everything that happened to you, all those terrible things that I hope someday you’ll tell me about, they’re part of who you are now. They make up the scars that are on your heart. If you rip them off, try to make them disappear, you’ll just cause more damage in the end. Scars are your body’s way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Shakespeare's Secret
“Now, Sir, for my own part, as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant, the farther off he is removed from me, the better pleased am I. The generality of mankind also are of my way of thinking, and have unanimously created one king, whose election at once diminishes the number of tyrants, and puts tyranny at the greatest distance from the greatest number of people.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, quote from The Vicar of Wakefield
“This statement is not provable.” Think about it for a minute. It’s a strange statement, since it talks about itself—in fact, it asserts that it is not provable. Let’s call this statement “Statement A.” Now, suppose Statement A could indeed be proved. But then it would be false (since it states that it cannot be proved). That would mean a false statement could be proved—arithmetic would be inconsistent. Okay, let’s assume the opposite, that Statement A cannot be proved. That would mean that Statement A is true (because it asserts that it cannot be proved), but then there is a true statement that cannot be proved—arithmetic would be incomplete. Ergo, arithmetic is either inconsistent or incomplete.”
― quote from Complexity: A Guided Tour
“In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.”
― Giorgio Bassani, quote from The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
“You're allowed to look, sweetheart, he murmured, running a finger down her hot cheek. I enjoy having your eyes on me.”
― Cherise Sinclair, quote from Dark Citadel
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