“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“Portia Kane, Official Member of the Human Race! This card entitles you to ugliness and beauty, heartache and joy—the great highs and lows of existence—and everything in between. It also guarantees you the right to strive, to reach, to dream, and to become the person you know (deep down) you are meant to be. So make daring choices, work hard, enjoy the ride, and remember—you become exactly whomever you choose to be.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Teachers have to believe. You have to care, and that takes a lot of work and effort. Teachers need people to give back once in a while too, if only a little.”
“The books we read in literature classes--just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.”
“the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“This wasn't supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be beautiful. What the fuck?”
“Do people actually do that--go back and thank their teachers years later, when they're no longer handicapped by youth and ignorance, when they figure out just how much their teachers actually did for them?”
“The world is a hard place and can be hardest on the hopeful,”
“Do you know what happens when you do nothing? Nothing.”
“I haven’t been home for years. My mother’s lack of a filter.”
“Another thought hits me hard as a lawn dart to the eye: this moment is so terribly unimportant to the rest of the world, yet it means everything to me somehow - and it's enough.
So I sign and I sign and I sign.”
“All the time in the world may sound nice in theory, but in practice it can become a swift kick to the balls. CHAPTER 7 Harper’s is the local convenience store around here, only it’s nothing like the Wawas and 7-Elevens I frequented when I lived in the Philadelphia area.”
“You know what you call a herd of unicorns? A blessing. True.”
“PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)”
“You’ll be with my husband, and I’ll be with so many sisters who see no visions. Who have no eyes to see, nor ears to hear—”
“My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”
“Always the bridesmaid , never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".”
“I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.”
“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
“I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or exaggerate it, or adjust it at all. I simply loved him as if he were my one and only lover, and he loved me too with the same simplicty of appetite and disire which made me wonder what I thought I had been doing all those years when I had been dealing in the false coin of vanity and lust. I had not known then that all along there had been this other currency of pure gold.”
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