“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“You never know, life is short but it’s wide”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“So we stand there, part of a crowd a thousand people strong, beaming up at the sky with wonder. I knew with a sudden certainty that wherever I am in the future - up in my treehouse, alone in the school cafeteria, or trying to figure out what my teachers are talking about, a part of me will always be right here, right now, wish that giant eye in the sky shining down on me, telling me it's going to be alright.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore.
After all, I've got a whole new world to see.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny.
- "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt.
And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“I'm going to ask Bree if she'll help me."
"I'm a little scared if her," I admit.
"Me too," Ally says, then laughs. "Maybe it's because she's so beautiful. Don't you think she's the most beautiful girl you've ever seen?"
I shake my head. "I've seen prettier."
"You have not."
"I have." It takes all my courage to look up.
"Oh," she says, and then blushes furiously.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“The trick is that if you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“I am not plain or average or- god forbid- vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge, and a cherry on top.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“Well, I'm not as lucky as you to have this every day.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
“Zane wondered if Ty was a mama‟s boy. He tipped his head to the side, watching them as he picked out a piece of warm bread, and thought maybe so. Not that he would ever voice that opinion to Ty until he was good and ready to die.”
― Abigail Roux, quote from Sticks & Stones
“But, look, it is good to have a dream so long as you do not let it gnaw at the substance of your present. I have seen men consumed by their dreams, and it is a sour business. If you cling too tightly to a dream—a poodle bitch or a personal sausage chef or whatever—then you miss the felicity of your heart beating and the smell of the grass growing and the sounds lizards make when you run through the neighborhood with our friend. Your dream should be like a favorite old bone that you savor and cherish and chew upon gently. Then, rather than stealing from you a wasted sigh or the life of an idle hour, it nourishes you, and you become strangely contented by nostalgia for a possible future, so juicy with possibility and redolent of sautéed garlic and decadent slabs of bacon that you feel full when you’ve eaten nothing. And then, one fine day when the sun smiles upon your snout, then the time is right, you bite down hard. The dream is yours. And then you
chew on the next one.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hammered
“I have both been given and taken so many identities, but at last I am beginning to grow into my one true name.
This was the gift my mother gave to me: Hope.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Shattered
“Each day, I feel, is a gift to be truly cherished. If you do not laugh for a day, if you have not made someone's day happier, if you have not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth.”
― Preeti Shenoy, quote from Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
“Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine.”
― Sara Raasch, quote from Ice Like Fire
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