“Maybe we aren't so very different after all. There's good and bad in both of us, and that's what binds us together, for better or worse.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“If Chase's wings are broken, then mine are shattered.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Kay is a sandcastle on the beach, and I'm a fucking hurricane. I'd not only wash her away, I'd fucking destroy her.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Tell me, Chase. Tell me what I think I already know. Tell me what you’re feeling. I feel it too, I do.' My slaughtered heart stitches back together, more solid than ever. `I love you,' I whisper. `I love you so fucking much.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“You're not broken.' I touch the angel between the wings on his back for emphasis. 'You're putting your life back together. Building isn't breaking, Chase.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“We both still, lips touching, breaths shared. This is what we are, two broken people who when connected are made whole, made right. I feel this everywhere, my body, my heart, my soul.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“As I stand before you, judge me not.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“He kisses me hard, tells me between frenzied kisses, `You feel so good, beautiful, beautiful, sweet girl. Feel how much I want you.' He circles his hips against mine. `I want you like this all the fucking time.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“For Chase, I accept dares, I'm learning to take chances. He makes me feel unafraid.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I decide this day with Chase Gartner--my friend, my maybe-possibility--is the best one yet.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“As we held tightly to one another, like two lost ships on a sea of confusion, I breathed in the guy I've grown to care for so very much.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“This is what Kay needs right now, soft touching and caring. When we're together, I want to love her just like this.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“It’s at that exact second I realize—in a rush, like a wave crashing all around me—I have fallen in love. I am head over heels in love with Chase Gartner.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Chase has made me feel a lot of things today, things I thought I’d never feel again—excitement, giddiness, lust, possibility. But the most important one—the one I want to cling to like a girl who’s been stumbling around for too long in the dark and has just spotted a sliver of light—is hope.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Hi,' Kay says all shy-like, as if she's suddenly not sure if she should be here. To me, she looks like she's belonged here all along.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I like this dirty Chase, this crude and irreverent man. I want to go where he's taking me. I need to be dragged down to where he is so we can build ourselves back up, together, stronger.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
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“You know, there's reason why certain expressions never go away and endure the test of time. It's because they're as real todaynasnthey were a hundred years ago.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Among us English-speaking peoples especially do the praises of poverty need once more to be boldly sung. We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly—the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape. When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There are thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman. Think of the strength which personal indifference to poverty would give us if we were devoted to unpopular causes. We need no longer hold our tongues or fear to vote the revolutionary or reformatory ticket. Our stocks might fall, our hopes of promotion vanish, our salaries stop, our club doors close in our faces; yet, while we lived, we would imperturbably bear witness to the spirit, and our example would help to set free our generation. The cause would need its funds, but we its servants would be potent in proportion as we personally were contented with our poverty. I recommend this matter to your serious pondering, for it is certain that the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
― William James, quote from The Varieties of Religious Experience
“I come from Divisadero Street. Divisadero, from the Spanish word for ‘division,’ the street that at one time was the dividing line between San Francisco and the fields of the Presidio. Or it might be derived from the word divisar, meaning ‘to gaze at something from a distance.’ (There is a ‘height’ nearby called El Divisadero.) Thus a point from which you can look far into the distance”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from Divisadero
“He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“There's an openness to his face, an innocence—a certain kind of niceness. It's the niceness that touches my heart the most.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
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