“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
“Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
“The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of society, or mode of action in history, to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life. Everything tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him. He should see that he can live all history in his own person. He must sit at home with might and main, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the governments of the world . . .”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Maturity
A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body grows
Inaccurate, tired;
Then I shall start to feel the backward pull
Take over, sickening and masterful —
Some say, desired.
And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time.”
― Philip Larkin, quote from Collected Poems
“Often, maybe even usually, Bernie ended up being the smartest human in the room. Tonight was different.”
― Spencer Quinn, quote from Dog on It
“The Gedalists were nearly run down by a Dodge truck on which two grand pianos had been loaded: two uniformed officers were playing, in unison, with gravity and commitment, the 1812 Overture of Tchaikowsky, while the driver wove among the wagons with brusque swerves, pressing the siren at full volume, heedless of the pedestrians in his way.”
― Primo Levi, quote from If Not Now, When?
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