“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
“also understood that there are many degrees of holiness, that each soul is free to respond to the calls of Our Lord, to do much or little for His Love—in a word, to choose amongst the sacrifices He asks.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux, quote from Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger for more. More defeat! More disappointment! More deceit! More loneliness! More arthritis! More missionaries! God willing, more cunt! More disastrous entanglement in everything. For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Sabbath's Theater
“Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Seeress of Kell
“Then what do you feel? It's all such a nothingness, what you feel and what you don't feel." "What”
― D.H. Lawrence, quote from The Rainbow
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