“Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you’re only pretending. Then you’re sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Leave the past behind you so the future can find you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I love you slowly. I love you deeply. I love you quietly. I love you powerfully. I love you unconditionally.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“He was my golden, and I was his. Forever forever and always always.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Alive. I want to be alive, and I have no idea why, seeing how hideous life is at times. Maybe it's belief, hope, and passion all wrapped into one shape that rests inside my chest. Perhaps my heart is just praying for better tomorrows to replace all those shitty yesterdays.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Why didn’t anyone ever throw reading parties? I would be all over that crap.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“You can apologize for punching someone, but it doesn’t stop the bruising.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I thought I made you up. I thought that I was living in a world of darkness and I imagined you into existence. That somehow my mind crafted you, placing you on that train months ago. But then I realized I could never dream of something so beautiful. “You’re the reason people believe in tomorrow. You’re the voice that scares the shadows away. You’re the love that makes me breathe. So for the next few seconds, I’m going to be selfish. I’m going to say things that I don’t want you to listen to.” My hands ran up and down her back as I pulled her closer, feeling her nerves rocking throughout her. I kissed the edge of her ear. “Don’t go. Stay with me forever. Please, Ashlyn. Let me be your everything. Make me your golden. Don’t. Go.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I don’t want to be your friend,” he said. We breathed in together and exhaled in harmony. “I want to be yours, I want you to be mine, and I hate that we can’t be us. Because I think we were meant to be us.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Everyone has a golden. It could be anything-a song, a book, a pet, a person. Anything that makes you so happy your insides cry of pure joy. It feels like you're on drugs but better because it's a natural high. Shakespeare is my golden.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“His kisses tasted like forever soaked in always.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I never said it would be easy. I just said do it. Besides, the best things in life aren't easy. They are tough, they are painful, and they are raw. That makes the arrival to the final destination that much sweeter.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Being a teenager is a curse and a gift. It's the age where fairytales cease to exist and Santa isn't real but parts of our hearts want to say 'What if...”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Because I’d never seen two people who loved each other so quietly.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Sometimes when you miss a person, you can only focus on how sad you feel that they are gone. Other times, it's best to focus on the memories that bring you joy and laughter.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I'll be your best friend, darlin', if you tell me your name.
I'll be your sunshine when you grow tired of the rain.
You can walk away and I'm sure I'll be all right.
But just so you know, you'll be in my dreams tonight...”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“You deserve to be the chorus to a person’s favorite song. You deserve to be the dedication in their favorite book.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. But if there's anyone I want to be like when I do, it's that young man who wrote those words. I want to remember to breathe in the laughter and cherish the tears. I want to dive into hope and land in love. I want to be alive when I grow up because...I have never been alive in all of my life. And I think the least we can do, in order to honor Ryan, is to start living today. And forgive ourselves for all of the shitty yesterdays.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Humans weren't made to be perfect, Daniel. We were made to screw up, fuck up, and learn new things. We were made perfectly imperfect.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“He said that it was okay to not be okay. He explained that it was fine to be broken for a while, to not feel anything but hurt.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“It takes a strong man to love my sister. And you are a strong man. So her are some twin-tips for you from yours truly:
Read her Shakespeare when she cries.
Take walks in the rain and jump in the puddles with her.
Don't mind her when she calls you an asshole during 'that time of the month' - she's a total bitch at those times.
Buy her flowers because it's Tuesday.
Make her do things that scare her.
Don't be a pushover - we don't like that.
Don't be a dick either - we hate that.
Smile at her when you're mad.
Dance with her in the middle of the day.
Kiss her just because.
Love her forever.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“If I learned anything these past few months, it's that life sucks, Daniel. It sucks. It's mean, it's vicious, and it's unapologetic. It's dark and cruel. But then, sometimes, it's so beautiful that it knocks all of that darkness out of your system with the light.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Daniel: You’re beautiful, Ashlyn. I don’t just mean your looks. I mean your smarts, your tears, your brokenness. I think that’s beautiful.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“But I knew I’d made the right decision. Because if it were the wrong decision, my heart wouldn’t hurt this much.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I guess sometimes it was easier to be mean than to be hurt.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Because maybe home wasn’t a location. Maybe it’s simply the people who you were surrounded with that made you feel as if you could be whoever you wanted to be. Maybe home was friendship.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I wasn't sure of it, but I was almost certain that loneliness was a disease. An infectious, disgusting illness that was slow to creep into your system and overtake you, even though you tried to fight it off the best you could.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“I was convinced that everyone in the world had a form a weirdness to them. And the cool thing, at least I hoped so, was the idea that there was someone out there just as quirky as you were. The idea of finding your other weirdo was so attractive to me.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“Can you do me a few favours? Show her off to the world. Shout it from the rooftops. Take her out on dates. She loves to dance - even though she's really bad at it. Make other couples jealous. Be her golden. Because I promise that she'll be yours.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
“You're the reason people believe in tomorrow. You're the voice that scares the shadows away. You're the love that makes me breathe. So for the next few seconds, I'm going to be selfish. I'm going to say things that I don't want you to listen to. Don't go. Stay with me forever. Please, Ashlyn. Let me be your everything. Make me your golden. Don't. Go.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from Loving Mr. Daniels
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“The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, quote from Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.”
― A.W. Tozer, quote from The Knowledge of the Holy
“It’s worth taking a brief pause here to ponder what has happened. Using only Pythagoras’ theorem and Einstein’s assumption about the speed of light being the same for everyone, we derived a mathematical formula that allowed us to predict the lengthening of the lifetime of a subatomic particle called a muon when that muon is accelerated around a particle accelerator in Brookhaven to 99.94 percent of the speed of light. Our prediction was that it should live 29 times longer than a muon standing still, and this prediction agrees exactly with what was seen by the scientists at Brookhaven. The more you think about this, the more wonderful it is. Welcome to the world of physics!”
― Brian Cox, quote from Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?)
“It’s time to start storing up our treasures in heaven, instead of hoarding them on earth.”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“David Foster Wallace: I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it’s really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid. And that the reasons…
That the fear is the basic condition, and there are all kinds of reasons for why we’re so afraid. But the fact of the matter is, is that, is that the job that we’re here to do is to learn how to live in a way that we’re not terrified all the time. And not in a position of using all kinds of different things, and using people to keep that kind of terror at bay. That is my personal opinion.
Well for me, as an American male, the face I’d put on the terror is the dawning realization that nothing’s enough, you know? That no pleasure is enough, that no achievement is enough. That there’s a kind of queer dissatisfaction or emptiness at the core of the self that is unassuageable by outside stuff. And my guess is that that’s been what’s going on, ever since people were hitting each other over the head with clubs. Though describable in a number of different words and cultural argots. And that our particular challenge is that there’s never been more and better stuff comin’ from the outside, that seems temporarily to sort of fill the hole or drown out the hole.
Personally, I believe that if it’s assuageable in any way it’s by internal means. And I don’t know what that means. I think it’s fine in some way. I think it’s probably assuageable by internal means. I think those internal means have to be earned and developed, and it has something to do with, um, um, the pop-psych phrase is lovin’ yourself.
It’s more like, if you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do this.”
― David Lipsky, quote from Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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