“Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“And there’s nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes—and you can’t say or do anything to change it.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“There’s a big difference between being happy and being selfish. Choose to be happy. Fire truck the rest.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“You said that life's just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I'll coast.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“Tommy’s three years old today, that means you raised him for three years. You. And you did an amazing job because look at him,” she says, pointing to the pictures. “Look how beautiful he is. How happy he is. You did that, Josh. You gave him a life worth smiling about.” She pauses a beat. “We’re not just here to celebrate Tommy’s birthday. We’re all here to celebrate you.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“There are some sacrifices greater than love. And some loves greater than any sacrifice. Tommy’s greater than both.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“Do you have a safe place, Becca?”
I release a shaky breath, but I can’t seem to look away. “Yes,” I whisper. And I hesitate, just for a moment, from telling him the truth. “You.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“There are so many things in my future that absolutely terrify me, but loving you for the rest of it isn’t one of them.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“You know what’s worse than your landlady calling you out on wearing cologne purely because you want to impress her granddaughter? I’ll tell you what. Being in the confined space of a truck while your son tells said granddaughter about how you paid him five moneys for him to tell you about what she said about you. Yeah. That’s happening.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“Some things will always be beautiful, even in the face of death.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“And real life—it was a fucking asshole.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“When you spend your whole life faking happiness, it becomes a second emotion.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“Year—I can’t even find it in myself to look forward to the next day, let alone three hundred and sixty-five of them. ”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“Please, please be patient with me. Because I really don’t want to let go of this. And you—I don’t want to let go of you.” My voice drops to a whisper. “Of us.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“I don’t want my past to determine my future—and my future is you, Josh.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“You and Tommy…” She places my hand over her heart. “…you own me in here.” And even as I feel her heart beat against my palm, I wonder if she knows that she just made mine stop.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“I press my lips to hers, trying, hoping, that it’s enough, that somehow, through a single kiss she’ll be able to feel it: how much she means to me. How much I appreciate her. How much I love that she didn’t just want me. She wanted us. All three of us.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“She’s disintegrated my armor with her existence, and now she has all of me.
Every single part.
I let her see me.
I let her love me.
And I let myself believe, just for a moment, I understood why.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“He punches the steering wheel. And then he breaks. The boy I love breaks. And there’s nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes—and you can’t say or do anything”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“And I decide then and there that he may possibly be my favorite person in the entire world.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“You never have to be afraid of me, Becca, I’ll never hurt you. And as long as I’m around, no one else will either.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“I’ll always love you,” I tell her. “You’ll always belong to me, Becca.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“I never thought I’d find someone like you. Someone who’d put up with me having a son and wanting to be part of both our lives. Why do you do it, Becca?” I ask, my heart pounding against my chest.
“Because, Josh. You and Tommy…” She places my hand over her heart. “…you own me in here.” And even as I feel her heart beat against my palm, I wonder if she knows that she just made mine stop.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“Our raw imperfections make us real and make us human but they don't make us.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“It's a hard emotion to explain— what it feels like to fake every single moment of your life. To breathe but to not exist. To smile but to not be happy. To nod and agree but to not really care.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
“So here we are, lying side by side, hand in hand, listening to music on the middle of a basketball court with nothing but darkness surrounding us and I swear it, my world has never looked so bright. “Becca?”
― Jay McLean, quote from Kick, Push
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“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her..the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.”
― Amanda Stevens, quote from The Restorer
“I made friends with three country Marines and a navy medic who provide security for the base—and who, in the course of their duties, confiscated four horses from Iraqi men who came too close to the base with carts, supposedly to collect scrap metal.”
― Kevin Sites, quote from In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
“Finally, the continuing war in Colombia offers a glimpse of the postmodern network scenario, where all sides in the conflict have linked up with privatized military help. While the government and multinational corporations have hired PMFs, the opposition as well has contracted out much of its intelligence and military functions. Flush with resources, Colombian political insurgents, drug cartels, international mafias, hired advisors, and other affiliates have also made their own alliances. Thus, they are able to limit the exposure of their core, while making use of the latest technology.”
― P.W. Singer, quote from Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
“In the dark ages a vampire could live for decades unopposed, feeding nightly on people whose only defense was to bar their windows and lock their doors and always, always, be home before sundown. When it became necessary to slay a vampire there was only one way it could be done. There were no guns and certainly no jackhammers at the time. The vampire slayers would gather up every able-bodied male in the community. The mob of them would go against the vampire with torches and spears and sticks if they had to. Very many of them would die in the first onslaught but eventually enough of them would pile on top to hold the vampire down.”
― David Wellington, quote from 13 Bullets
“No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command, victory is scarcely obtainable.” Eisenhower realized that “optimism and pessimism are infectious and they spread more rapidly from the head downward than in any other direction.” He learned that a commander’s optimism “has a most extraordinary effect upon all with whom he comes in contact. With this clear realization, I firmly determined that my mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory—that any pessimism and discouragement I might ever feel would be reserved for my pillow.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, quote from D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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