“You can't let your heart go places it's not supposed to go.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“I had to get my mind clear and the only way I knew how was to drown in music.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“So get your head out of your heart”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“No one should leave a friend worse than they found them.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“Whenever you're around her she's calm. She's more aware. It's like you carry a frequency she can tune into.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“Everyone can look into another's heart. People just don't usually take the time to do it.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“I shook my head. His body felt so strong and alive next to me, an electric current bounced between us. "I don't need dozens of wishes fulfilled. I'm with you. There's nothing else I want.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“Zoe, sometimes people get so buried they can't do anything more than reach, let alone summon the strength to climb out.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“In your heart of hearts you don't want to see that happen."
"No. But sometimes I wish he'd learn a lesson and shape up."
"Sometimes that's all it takes. But sometimes the road is much longer. Zoe, you have to be patient. Have faith."
"How can I have faith in him when he's not trying?"
"Do you know he's not trying?"
"He's not changing, is he?"
"Zoe." He stepped closer and though he didn't touch me, his nearness swiped away my anger. "Change isn't as easy as snapping your finger."
"It's easy if you just decide to do something. Come on Matthias, everybody's got their turning point, their rock bottom or whatever you want to call it."
"And for everyone it's different. If we all learned the lesson the first time around the track, there'd be no need for a stadium, for coaches, for cheerleaders, for those people who maintain the field so we can pick ourselves up and try again.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“Change isn't as easy as snapping your finger."
"And for everyone it's different. If we all learned the lesson the first time around the track, there'd be no need for a stadium, for coaches, for cheerleaders, for those people who maintain the field so we can pick ourselves up and try again.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“I'll go. Anywhere you ask. But I couldn't say that to him. Even if I felt like I could follow him to Mars, I wouldn't tell him. My will was the one thing I was not prepared to give anyone.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“He didn't move, just stood with a pleasant smile. But I wouldn't be fooled. How many times had I faces just like his on the news? Well, maybe not just like his. He was better looking than the average psychos.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
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“Per quanto contraddittorio possa sembrare, non c’è nulla di più vero che chi ha sempre fatto la scelta giusta non sa nemmeno la metà sulla natura e i modi di operare la scelta giusta, di chi ha fatto le scelte sbagliate.”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from A Pair of Blue Eyes
“But we had no intention of becoming shopkeepers or merely earning money. We needed work that would at the same time procure us satisfaction. And more than anything, we desired to make ourselves useful”
― Heinrich Harrer, quote from Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
“Mentira, el recuerdo del colegio despertaba aún esa inevitable sensación sombría y huraña bajo la cual su espíritu se contraía como una mimosa al contacto de la piel humana. Sólo que el malestar era cada vez más efímero, un pasajero granito de arena en el ojo, ya estaba bien de nuevo.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The Time of the Hero
“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The suggestion that this also meant the holding and wielding of power was judged offensive by these same people, who preferred to view their role as service, though in fact this was typical of an era when many of the great rich families withdrew from the new restless grab for money of a modernizing America, and having already made their particular fortunes, turned to the public arena as a means of exercising power. They were viewed as reformers, though the reforms would be aimed more at the newer seekers of wealth than at those who already held it. (“First-generation millionaires,” Garry Wills wrote in Nixon Agonistes, “give us libraries, second-generation millionaires give us themselves.”)”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Best and the Brightest
“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
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