“I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry around one or two, but we had to leave our backpacks on the bus.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“In my daydreams I’m always much prettier (and smarter, funnier, and more popular). I also never fall into drainpipes.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“What do you think you’re doing?” she asks, hands on her hips. Her lips quiver a bit as she speaks, though, and I get the distinct impression she’s trying not to laugh. I sigh, used to being falsely accused of wrongdoing by my naturally suspicious parents. “I fell.” I attempt to shrug my shoulders, but they don’t move. “And now I’m stuck,” I add.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“Sometimes the universe, it wants us to pause for a moment. To reflect on what’s happening in our lives.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“You won’t get what you want, Rory Swenson, until you see what you need.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“The words Wow, you’re strong for your age almost come out of my mouth, but that doesn’t sound very polite.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“I’ll be a great babysitter. I already know Rule #1: Don’t give coins to toddlers unless you enjoy sifting through what used to be pizza when it went in, but no longer looks (or smells!) anything remotely like pizza when it comes back out.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace it will you start to learn who you are, and begin going after what you really want.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“She shakes her head. “No. Other people look. You see. Looking isn’t the same as seeing.” And with that completely bizarre statement, she gets up and leaves. My mouth falls open a little at the abruptness of it all.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
Wendy Mass
Born place: Livingston, The United States
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“Writer's Resolution
Enough's Enough! No more shall I
Pursue the Muse and scorch the pie
Or dream of Authoring a book
When I (unhappy soul) must cook;
Or burn the steak while I wool-gather,
And stir my spouse into a lather
Invoking words like "Darn!" and such
And others that are worse (Oh, much!)
Concerning culinary knack
Which I (HE says) completely lack.
I'll keep my mind upon my work;
I'll learn each boresome cooking quirk;
This day shall mark a new leaf's turning...
That smell! Oh Hell! The beans are burning!”
― quote from The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
“It seemed to k. as if all contact with him had been cut and he was more of a free agent than ever. He could wait here, in a place usually forbidden to him, as long as he liked, and he also felt as if he gad won that freedom with more effort than most people could manage to make, and no one could touch him or drive him away, why, they hardly had a right even to adress him. But at the same time - and this feeling was at least as strong - he felt as if there were nothing more meaningless and more desperate than this freedom, this waiting, this invulnerability.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from Slottet
“Secrets carve us like water carves stone. On the surface nothing will shift, but things we cannot tell anyone chafe and consume us, and slowly our life settles around them, moulds itself into their shape.
Secrets gnaw at the bonds between people. Sometimes we believe they can also build them: if we let another person into the silent space a secret has made within us, we are no longer alone there.”
― Emmi Itäranta, quote from Memory of Water
“Sometimes in a marriage, it is easier to just buy peace and pay the price of swallowing your ego and keeping quiet.”
― Preeti Shenoy, quote from The Secret Wish List
“Also while I'd been away, the ship had sent a request on a postcard to the BBC's World Service, asking for 'Mr David Bowie's "Space Oddity" for the good ship Arbitrary and all who sail in her.' (This from a machine that could have swamped Earth's entire electro-magnetic spectrum with whatever the hell it wanted from somewhere beyond Betelgeuse.) It didn't get the request played. The ship thought this was hilarious.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The State of the Art
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