“It's OK not to be OK.”
“People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.”
“If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do”
“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something”
“A break up is the closest thing to bereavement”
“Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.”
“Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.”
“I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm”
“I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.”
“I may as well have told him I'd carried a watermelon”
“Don't be too funny, guys like funny but they don't want to marry a comedian, right? The guy is supposed to be the funny one.”
“Was I happy? Maybe more content than
bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?”
“Aren't you feeling lonely? You should go home and confront things, the dark room whispered. I had always hated how things seemed ever so slightly worse, ever so slightly more insane at night.”
“I had always hated how things seemed ever so slightly worse, ever so slightly more insane at night.”
“I'd really like to write. Just write, whether it's for magazines or books, whatever. Not necessarily deep and meaningful, but just something that someone can enjoy.”
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
“This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a “meat market” and that if Heavenly Father didn’t intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren’t intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren’t intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?”
“But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn’t been looking at her really. They’d been looking at what she represented to them: physical love or a valuable prize or an object to be gawked at. When Sir Alistair stared at her, well, he was looking at her.”
“¿A poco no somos los meros chingones? ¿Sabes? Escoge siempre a tus amigos entre los grandes chingones, porque con ellos no hay quien te chingue a ti.”
“I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.”
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