“All I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“She's trying so hard to be okay --- to make it all this shit okay --- but sometimes it's like the world just won't let her. The hits keep coming, and she keeps hurting.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“Okay then. Let’s go get our girl back." "My girl," I correct him. "She’s my girl." Kenji snorts as we head in the direction of the compounds. "Right. Minus the part where she’s not actually your girl. Not anymore." "Shut up." "Uh-huh." "Whatever.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“You want to keep your little brother alive? Make sure you don't kill yourself while you're trying to save him.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“The tension is so thick it's practically its own person, taking up a seat we don't have to spare.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“Every day we feel further apart. And sometimes I think the harder I try to hold on, the more she tries to break away.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“He’s such a social guy—and so popular around here—that sometimes I wonder where he got it from. In many ways he’s the exact opposite of me. He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“That’s when I understand. Of course she’s not okay. Of course she didn’t get any sleep last night. Last night she almost killed one of her closest friends. She’d just started trusting herself and not being afraid of herself; now she’s back to where she started. Shit. I’m already sorry I even brought it up.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
“He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Fracture Me
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“What's it like being with her? Is it true what they say about older chicks?"
"She's not that much older."
"Uh, okay. So anyway, how is it?"
"It's incredible."
"What's she do"
"She does everything, Ben.”
― Tracey Garvis-Graves, quote from On the Island
“When God’s Lightning was first founded, as a splinter off Women’s Liberation, it had as its slogan “No More Sexism,” and its original targets were adult bookstores, sex-education programs, men’s magazines, and foreign movies. It was only after meeting “Smiling Jim” Trepomena of Knights of Christianity United in Faith that Atlanta discovered that both male supremacy and orgasms were part of the International Communist Conspiracy. It was at that point, really, that God’s Lightning and orthodox Women’s Lib totally parted company, for the orthodox faction, just then, were teaching that male supremacy and orgasms were part of the International Kapitalist Conspiracy.)”
― Robert Shea, quote from The Illuminatus! Trilogy
“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
― Susan Cain, quote from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Tush!
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured
We come to use our hands and not our tongues.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Richard III
“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, quote from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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