“Some day you’ll call me the one that got away.” -Jessie from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“If this is the real you, whoever told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you worse advice.” - Claire from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“You might score some touchdowns on the football field, but you can forget about getting into Claire’s end zone”. -Payton from Going Under”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“Do you suffer from restless lip syndrome because they make medication for that?” -Jessie from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“I hope he got plenty of rest last night because his legs are gonna be real tired after he runs through your mind all day.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“Am I crazy for thinking I could have a chance with her?”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“I hope you know CPR because you are going to take Jessie's breath away.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“I feel myself...going under. I'm drowning in you because I am so hopelessly in love with you. You're the only one I want.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“No and Yes. No, it doesn't change what I think about you, and yes, it validated you're still an asshole.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“Hey, there's a song about me called 'Jessie's Girl.' I still hear it on the radio occasionally."
"Yeah, everybody wishes they had Jessie's girl," he laughed.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“but Betty…the boy wants to be your Fred Flintstone so he can make your Bedrock. Peyton from Going Under”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“He's such a creep. He gave me that up-and-down look with those weird grunting and moaning sounds he makes. I feel like I need a morning-after pill and strong antibiotics.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
Georgia Cates
Born place: in The United States
Born date September 11, 1975
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“It is we who are the parasites, and Earth the host”
― Carl Zimmer, quote from Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
“We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from The Culture of Make Believe
“The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but torrents of bad news throughout history have contradicted that claim, and little sound science has backed it. But try this thought experiment. Imagine the number of opportunities people around the world today might have to commit an antisocial act, from rape or murder to simple rudeness and dishonesty. Make that number the bottom of a fraction. Now for the top value you put the number of such antisocial acts that will actually occur today.
That ratio of potential to enacted meanness holds at close to zero any day of the year. And if for the top value you put the number of benevolent acts performed in a given day, the ratio of kindness to cruelty will always be positive. (The news, however, comes to us as though that ratio was reversed.)
Harvard's Jerome Kagan proposes this mental exercise to make a simple point about human nature: the sum total of goodness vastly outweighs that of meanness. 'Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent,' Kagan notes, 'they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture – especially toward those in need.' This inbuilt ethical sense, he adds, 'is a biological feature of our species.”
― Daniel Goleman, quote from Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
“I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The”
― Ross Macdonald, quote from The Chill
“I had grazed along the surface of her actions and made deep judgments. Rejecting someone because you couldn't understand their love, that was a new one. The more I thought about it the longer the shadow of doubt stretched over all my conclusions. More often than not, things were as they seemed. But as I stared at her, she wasn't as bad looking as I had once thought. I realized how all this time I had seen her the wrong way, and how one's character affects one's appearance. Although she wasn't my type she was attractive. As I thought about her - the vulnerable intelligence, the violent honesty, and the fact that in the entire city she was the only one who took me in and fed me - she became more and more irresistible. Baited by an obscure beauty, trapped by an intense sorrow - all prior definitions had been overruled: this was love.”
― Arthur Nersesian, quote from The Fuck-Up
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