“I think I need to avoid the world today. There’s no way I
can adult.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“If at first you don't succeed, kill your opponent.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“The most destructive or constructive actions begin with a single thought.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Hate is like drinking a vial of poison and expecting it to harm the other person, You’re not hurting the guy, only yourself.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Would do anything for five more minutes. Just five. To hold her hand, to tell her I forgive her.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Are you living your parents’ dream...or your own?”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“What you know and feel matters, but what you do matters more.”
—Troika”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Without pressure, there would be no diamonds. Without tests and trials, you wouldn’t know your own strength—or weaknesses.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“You saw his actions,” Bow says, “but not his heart.”
Is she serious? “Actions reveal heart.”
“Not always. Deception is all about perception.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Physical pain will never compare to mental anguish”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“I am alone. Never will I believe You care for me The truth is Having faith in you is foolish I don’t think My well-being is your first priority I know We’ll protect each other Is just silly. I believe Remaining on my own Is the smartest course of action Staying with you Is the fastest way to Firstdeath Walking—no, running—away from you Won’t be easy, but I’m willing to do it And I know that We’re better off together Is a lie. For I’m certain of this: I am alone. Two”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Tall, blonde and model-pretty, she’s the girl every other longs to be. Until she opens her mouth, and her outer beauty can no longer compensate for her inner bitch.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Flesh heals. The soul can fester.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Stop trusting your eyes and start listening to your heart. It sees more than you ever will.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Gotta slay a lion before you can slay a dragon”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“hate is like drinking a vial of poison and expecting it to harm the other person,”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Fear keeps you alive. Fear reminds you that you are alive.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“But her general nastiness triggered my inner bitch. I didn’t even know I had an inner bitch!”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Yesterday, today and tomorrow, my actions matter.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“He doesn’t yet understand the outside is a shell for all of us. My beauty is on the inside, where it never fades.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“The body doesn’t always crave what’s good for it. That’s why attraction will never be enough for me. That’s why there has to be more. Love. Devotion. Determination.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Someone who refuses to see the truth will accept the lie. Someone who accepts the lie will never see the truth”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Better you're my enemy and happy than my friend and miserable”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“Someone who refuses to see the truth will accept the lie.” Well.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“If happiness is dependent on outside variables, it can’t last. Variables always change. Real happiness has to come from within.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“I remind myself that I'm no longer a damsel in distress. I can think this through. What I can't do? Base my decision on fear. Because, while I might be free to make my choice right now, I'll never be free from the consequences of that choice”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Firstlife
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“Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.”
― Marquis de Sade, quote from Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
“Galaxy 500′s cover of Yoko Ono’s Listen, the Snow Is Falling, or Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, The Chambermaids Down in the Berries,”
― Anne Frasier, quote from Hush
“What would have happened had he not been killed? He would certainly have had a rocky road to the nomination. The power of the Johnson administration and much of the party establishment was behind Humphrey. Still, the dynamism was behind Kennedy, and he might well have swept the convention. If nominated, he would most probably have beaten the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Individuals do make a difference to history. A Robert Kennedy presidency would have brought a quick end to American involvement in the Vietnam War. Those thousands of Americans—and many thousands more Vietnamese and Cambodians—who were killed from 1969 to 1973 would have been at home with their families. A Robert Kennedy presidency would have consolidated and extended the achievements of John Kennedy’s New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The liberal tide of the 1960s was still running strong enough in 1969 to affect Nixon’s domestic policies. The Environmental Protection Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act with its CETA employment program were all enacted under Nixon. If that still fast-flowing tide so influenced a conservative administration, what signal opportunities it would have given a reform president! The confidence that both black and white working-class Americans had in Robert Kennedy would have created the possibility of progress toward racial reconciliation. His appeal to the young might have mitigated some of the under-thirty excesses of the time. And of course the election of Robert Kennedy would have delivered the republic from Watergate, with its attendant subversion of the Constitution and destruction of faith in government. RRK”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., quote from Robert Kennedy and His Times
“Seeing the open pits in the open air, among farms, is the wonder, and seeing the bodies twist free from the soil. The sight of a cleaned clay soldier upright in a museum case is unremarkable, and this is all that future generations will see. No one will display those men crushed beyond repair; no one will display their loose parts; no one will display them crawling from the walls. Future generations will miss the crucial sight of ourselves as rammed earth.”
― Annie Dillard, quote from For the Time Being
“You will be sacrificed to the gods, and then I will tear out your heart with my own hands."
"If you still have your own hands, you're probably not as far up the ladder as you wanted us to think. Put someone else on -- someone with real authority and a few more replacement parts."
Tsavong Lah & Jaina”
― Elaine Cunningham, quote from Dark Journey
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