“The only way to belong is to act like you belong. Or to not give a shit whether you belong or not.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“It's always better to be the dumper than the dumpee.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“In case you didn't notice me, I'm the less attractive friend to the right.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“He had a lot of different smiles, and Jane was getting to know them all.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“Jane was wearing a charcoal shift dress. The black dipped into a love V accented with a large black chiffon bow. A layer of delicate black lace peeked out from the bottom of her dress. Her long blond hair was pulled back tightly into a straight ironed ponytail. Her makeup was simple: coral blush on her cheeks and gunmetal shadow brushed under her blue eyes.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“Why had Jesse asked Scarlett to sit next to him? And since when did guys go to the bathroom together?”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“How can we set up a system which encourages individuals to strive and excel, and yet which shows some compassion to the weak, and weeds out madmen and tyrants?”
― David Brin, quote from The Postman
“عندما نتعلم كيفية الرد على مجريات أمور حياتنا يدرجة أكبر من الهدوء، فأن المشكلات التي تبدو وكأنها لا تقهر، ستظهر على أنها قابلة للحل. وحتى أكبر الأمور التي تثير توترك، لن تُخرج حياتك عن مسارها كما كان يحدث من قبل”
― Richard Carlson, quote from Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
“But it was not what I wanted to do! I wanted to star in a silent movie and vamp the sheik, take a trip to the South Seas … walk naked in the sand and surf … write a novel about it. Be the Empress of the Galaxy, be discovered by a hero that would ravish me, and take me away on high adventure! Take a interminable motor home trip across the US and find out how the past had become the present. Journey to Europe, speak flawless French, and become the courtesan in the country chalet where all the real people came to party.” She laughed again. “Mostly I did not want be confined to routine … endless routine.”
― William C. Samples, quote from Fe Fi FOE Comes
“...'To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.'
– Ecclesiastes 12:12”
― quote from New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
“Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact date is not recorded--she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infant was not the male heir to France so desired by the King--the Salic law forbade the succession of females to the throne--her arrival encouraged the royal parents to hope for a son in the future.
Relationships between aristocratic parents and children were rarely close. Queens and noblewomen did not nurse their own babies, but handed them over at birth into the care of wet nurses, leaving themselves free to become pregnant again.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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