“More disturbing than hurt is love when it's wrong.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“The brain of a psychopath is different from most, I've weighed up my chances. Eighty per cent genetics, twenty per cent environment. Me. One hundred per cent fucked.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“A Native American tale where the Cherokee tells his grandson there’s a battle between two wolves in all of us. One is evil, the other good. The boy asks him, Which wolf wins? The Cherokee tells him, The one you feed.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“When Peter says to Wendy: “Come with me where you’ll never, never have to worry about grown-up things again,” I remember thinking, I’d like to go there. Please.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Tu contacto dolía, pero la ausencia de contacto duele más.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“You broke my heart.
You broke my.
You broke.
You.
And me.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Казах ти сбогом тази нощ, прошепнах го. Мисля, че е възможно да съм казала, че те обичам, и наистина е така. Все е още така, макар че се опитвам да не е.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Forgiving, that's what she is, and lonely. A person can forgive a lot if they need the company.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Beauty gives a person power. And camouflage.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“A hypervigilance, never knowing what to expect, but knowing to expect something.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Transference is a process by which someone unconsciously transfers feelings about a person in their past on to a person or situation in their present.’ ‘I was only trying to thank her.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. Carson McCullers, 1917–1967”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Kindness when you're wounded hurts more.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING GOOD IN YOUR LIFE, DON'T LET IT GO.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Ricordo di aver pensato che non volevo accecare le persone o attirarle dove non potevano più fuggire. Non volevo essere come te”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Fa male. Fa male essere il bersaglio di Phoebe, ma è pur sempre una forma di inclusione, a un certo livello. Un'opportunità di imparare, e io ne ho tanta voglia. Adesso sono la maestra di me stessa, anche se le tue lezioni continuano a riecheggiare nella mia mente.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Mi aggrappavo al pensiero che un giorno potessi essere amata e accettata per come ero. Da qualcuno. Chiunque fosse. Ma adesso non ho alcuna possibilità, ci ha pensato Phoebe. Non solo ha deciso subito che non le piacevo, ma anche che non sarei dovuta piacere a nessuno. È potente, come te.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Ti piace giocare, vero?" Chiede
La sua voce. È diversa, più pressante. Capisco che cosa significa.
"Dipende", rispondo
"Da cosa?"
"Se vinco o no”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Non c'è un altro modo?"
Mike scuote la testa, si protende in avanti e dice: "Non c'è una via di fuga. Bisogna passare attraverso il fuoco”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Al reparto mi avevano detto che la speranza era la mia arma migliore, che mi avrebbe aiutata a superare tutto. E come una sciocca io ci ho creduto”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Dovrei sentirmi fortunata, invece ho paura. Paura di scoprire chi sono e cosa potrei essere. E ho paura che anche loro lo scoprano.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.
'Her name is Annie.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“A wave. Raw. Sadness washes over me as I'm dismissed. I don't move, I look at the screen. I want to run to you, crawl up inside you back into your womb. Rewrite a history where this time you'd love me normally. Shiny and new.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Dragged from your room. A red crease of sleep visible down your cheek, eyes foggy with the adjustment from a state of rest to a state of arrest. You said nothing. Even when your face was mashed into the carpet, your rights read out, their knees and elbows pressed in your back. Your nightie rode high up your thighs. No underwear. The indignity of it all.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“Guns held in praying hands, flat against their chests. The thrill of the search, along with the terror of the truth, etched in equal measure on their faces.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“You turned your head to the side. Faced me. Your eyes never left mine, I read them with ease. You said nothing to them, yet everything to me. I nodded.
But only when no one was watching.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
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“3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from The Lonely Hearts Club
“Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Behind the Scenes at the Museum
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Men at Arms: The Play
“I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Assassin's Quest
“Don't give yourself a limit and you may discover you don't have one.”
― Veronica Blade, quote from Something Witchy This Way Comes
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