“Would I cheat to save my soul?
No.
But to save my G.P.A.?
Yes.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation."
One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink.
'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked.
Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.'
It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“Oh yeah. That’s me. A mystery, even unto herself.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“... Then he did a strange thing. He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed my palm."
"I died. That was like the sweetest thing.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“My name, from his lips. It still made my heart leap.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“I’m strangling her. She’s not the one I want to eliminate. All this suppressing and holding her down, keeping her caged, perpetuating this fraud, this sham. I can’t do it anymore.” He shook his head. “I can’t.” He raised his chin and looked at me. “It won’t go away. No matter how much I wish, or pray, she’s always with me. She is me. I am her. I want to be her. I want to be Luna.” “You”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
Julie Anne Peters
Born place: in Jamestown, New York, The United States
Born date January 16, 1952
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“Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when he was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
“Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.”
― Dan Millman, quote from The Journeys of Socrates
“people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.”
― John Irving, quote from In One Person
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year. After that, what economists call “diminishing marginal returns” sets in. If your family makes seventy-five thousand and your neighbor makes a hundred thousand, that extra twenty-five thousand a year means that your neighbor can drive a nicer car and go out to eat slightly more often. But it doesn’t make your neighbor happier than you, or better equipped to do the thousands of small and large things that make for being a good parent.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, quote from David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“Time travel isn’t a wonder; it’s an abomination.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
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