“These shoes look like they're straight out of 'The Wizard of Oz,' but since I'm like the tornado that blew you into Oz, I guess you can wear Dorothy's red slippers. And if I'm gone and seem lost, maybe you can do a little click and I'll find my way home.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I’ve wrapped myself up in him, something that no woman should do with any man.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“–The Prince Charming myth is the other curse God created to punish Eve and every other woman for biting that stupid apple.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“Why did you come after me? Why did you bring me this?" I thrust my hand in his face showcasing our ring.
"Yeah, I brought it to you. You're my wife. Why the hell do you keep taking it off?”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“He’s the master of manipulation, the king of allure.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I was caught before I even knew I was being hunted,”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I have a lot of confusion about his love for me, but what I have never been confused about is my love for him. I love Cal. That’s it. There’s been nothing I’ve been able to do to stop loving him yet. No matter how angry or how frustrated I get. He knows the exact moment, to do the exact thing to make me fall in love with him all over again.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“He’s thinking, which is always a good sign.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“A guy is supposed to put you on cloud nine and help you forget about your problems.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“That longing feeling of missing him so much that I felt a part of me was missing, gone. That part of me would be returned in pieces, but not quite broken.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“Love and hate crashing together in a never-ending battle that I fought within myself.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I have to let go. I have to let him go and believe that the future can take the place of my past.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“The bags around my eyes can carry groceries. I look like I haven’t slept in days. I”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I don’t want to be a part of your past. I want to be the only person to touch you in ways that give you chills, to whisper things that make you turn red. I know there are a lot of things that you want to know about me that I haven’t been exactly open with you about. But know that I love you; I’ve been in love with you longer than I’ve admitted to myself.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“care about and what’s important to me.” “Lauren, that’s not true. If it were, when Angie called”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“The four-carat yellow diamond on my finger is a beautiful but painful reminder of the vows he broke. I”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I expected his lack of response, but it hurts all the same. I’m pretty sure he regards me more as his personal high-class escort than his wife. I”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“The loneliest time of my life didn’t begin until I married the one person I would have given my life for.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“Nothing is certain now. The bond between us, once so real—so tangible, I believed in it with every ounce of my being—is now in tatters. Whatever we had has been lost, our home void of warmth and love and filled with anger instead. We are participants in a war of words that continues to be recycled over and over again.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I hate the fact that I still get chills when he touches me. I wish I would cringe instead. I hate it even more that he knows the effect he has on me.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“He lifts me up and carries me inside to our bed. This is what he does, after all. He’s the master of manipulation, the king of allure. He knows me inside and out—”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
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“An ugly woman, very poorly clothed, hurried in while I was glancing at them, and coming straight up to the mother, said, “Jenny! Jenny!” The mother rose on being so addressed and fell upon the woman’s neck. She also had upon her face and arms the marks of ill usage. She had no kind of grace about her, but the grace of sympathy; but when she condoled with the woman, and her own tears fell, she wanted no beauty. I say condoled, but her only words were “Jenny! Jenny!” All the rest was in the tone in which she said them. I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
“Your mind was made to know and love God.”
― John Piper, quote from Don't Waste Your Life
“To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Adolescent
“Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.”
― Jessica Brody, quote from My Life Undecided
“The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension. It was as simple as that. If a God existed, humanity must strive to discover this God and help this deity become omniscient, not just in one infinity, but in an infinity of infinities. This was one possible purpose for her species. But her alter ego, using symbolic logic, had arrived at a possibility she considered much more likely: that humanity’s purpose, together with all life across all universes, was not to discover God—it was to become God. If a single human egg could possess consciousness at the instant of fertilization, how would it view itself? It couldn’t possibly predict or comprehend the multi-trillion-celled being it would ultimately become. The entirety of humanity could well be that single, fertilized cell, unaware that it would grow a trillion-fold more complex and eventually become God, perhaps had already become God, in a universe in which all pasts, presents, and futures existed side by side. Humanity was composed of separate individuals now, but an embryo at early stages was also nothing more than a ball of separate cells. But these separate cells would ultimately become connected in wondrous ways to create something unimaginably greater than themselves. And seen in this light, altruism and sociopathy were far from straightforward concepts, beyond even the complexities that Abraham Lincoln had revealed. Absolute altruism on one level could be absolute selfishness in disguise on another, and vice-versa. The cells making up the human body were selfless; gladly sacrificing themselves when necessary for the good of the organism. On the microscopic level they were being foolishly altruistic, foolishly suicidal, but on the macroscopic level they were being purely selfish—ensuring the survival of the body. And what happened when an individual cell became selfish and exhibited Nietzsche’s will to power? It became a cancer. The cell would break free of the restraints on its own division and become immortal—for a while—until its very immortality choked the entire organism to death, killing the selfish cell in the process.”
― Douglas E. Richards, quote from Wired
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