“I think, ultimately, that’s what true love is, you know? To want to be someone’s hero when they’re faced with villains. To want to be to be the one that saves them. To be their Wonderwall.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“My own home doesn’t feel like home unless you’re there.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“They love each other. You said loved. Love doesn’t die just because one heart stops beating. When you love someone, you have the same heartbeat and it’s still there, just not as strong. So no. There’s no loved. Dad still loves her.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“I came here for you.”
“Why?”
“Because I want to kiss you.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“I need you. I need to love you. And I need to love you right.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“You impress people with your mind. With your kind heart and humble attitude. And while you’re a beautiful girl, your looks or the way you dress shouldn’t be the reason people are impressed by you. And when you’re older and boys start to notice you, I want you to remember that. Because if it’s only your looks they’re attracted to, then they’re not the one for you, Lo. You can do better. You will do better.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“I’m sorry he hurt you, but hurting yourself isn’t going to change that. You can’t control what people do or how they treat you. You can only control how you react to it.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“Don’t you want to be the first to touch something? To reach out and grasp onto the world around you? You can’t touch it if you can’t see it.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“Sticks and stones may break bones, but words dig and dig and dig deep into your heart until the hurt resonates, and your heart fails to remember the reason it beats in the first place.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“Don’t say you’re sorry. Or that you’ll miss her. Or that she was an amazing person and the world is a lesser place because she’s no longer part of it. Or that I’ll be okay. That one day, I’ll get over this. Or to remember her for everything she was, because I’ve heard it all. There’s not a damn thing you can say to make it okay. Not now. Not ever.” He didn’t say it with malice, and I didn’t take it that way. He was just… sad. So damn sad.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“You can't control what people do or how they treat you. You can only control how you react to it.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
“take your time, but don’t waste it. Trust me on that one.”
― Jay McLean, quote from Lucas
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“Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag.
Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands.
"What's the point?"
"You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Inner Harbor
“I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
“Down on Earth,” she said carefully, “there are no people left to draw lines on maps and say which sides of those lines are the right sides. There is no government left. No human government, anyway.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Dawn
“I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.”
― Hannah Harrington, quote from Speechless
“He wished he could tell him that none of it was going to turn out anything like the way he hoped, but that everything was going to be all right anyway. It was hard to explain, but he would see.”
― Lev Grossman, quote from The Magician's Land
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