“How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again.
I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“Just because you never look at me doesn't mean I'm not here.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“...every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be.
Something new had been born.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“To friends, family, food and taking exams in comfortable, quiet areas without distractions or time restrictions!”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.”
― René Descartes, quote from Meditations on First Philosophy
“Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said.
"Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?"
"It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, "it just isn't smart."
I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind.”
― Budd Schulberg, quote from What Makes Sammy Run?
“Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note.”
― Colm Tóibín, quote from The Master
“She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.”
― Francesca Lia Block, quote from The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
“I take a moment to admire the way Adrian’s t-shirt sticks to his back. He wasn’t a slouch in the muscle department to begin with, but now with the farm work we have to do by hand—it’s one of the silver linings in a very dark, zombie-shaped cloud.”
― Sarah Lyons Fleming, quote from And After
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