“Because while she's so pre-occupied reading... I'm so pre-occupied reading her.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Because it's eternal, the rise and fall of the sun. It's forever. Just like us”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Because he's Cameron. And you’re Lucy. You're team Luca. You guys are forever. If you two can't make it work, then we're all screwed.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie. And we promise that love forever. Forever and always”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Is your sister ... uh... hearing impaired?"
"She's just reading.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“You still make my world stop, Luce.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“If heartbreak had a sound, it would be her sob.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“It's the fucking hardest thing to do—to be around the person you love, every day, and not be able to love them.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I feel like I've loved you for eternity, and it's not even close to long enough.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I hope your dick gets whore poisoning and shrivels to its death! And then I hope all the girls see it and laugh at you! And then I hope it falls off! You can stare down at it and cry like a little bitch, just like you did when your pet hamster died!”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Quit moaning like a dick deprived whore and get out of my seat.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I thought it was impossible to be able to laugh again. But he did it; he made my impossible, possible”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Lachlan: "why are you crying, pretty girl?"
Logan: " Dude, you're always stealing my game”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“She reads, and I read her. And that's how I spend the next few weeks. Each day, she speaks a few more words to me, and each day I find myself caring more than I should.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“No fictional boy has ever compared to you.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Stop making me fall in love with you”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I move my hand lower. His eyes drift shut. Lower. He lets out a groan. And then I touch it. "Shit," he breathes. "Penis," I squeak.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I don't care that you can't quote my favorite movie, and you don't care that I don't know what book Will and Layken are from.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“You said that you wanted to be her reason for loving books. You said you wanted to be her reason for everything.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Lucy: It's just about a boy and a girl falling in love.
Camron: Yeah? Is the guy a stud? Is his name Cameron?”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“You can keep your two wishes, I'll just take the one. I want my girl, Lucy. My forever. And not just for our forever, but for eternity, and for always.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I sigh and flop down on my bed. "Okay." He starts pacing the room. "Rewind and tell me what happened from the beginning."
"Okay." I blow out a breath and try to calm down. "So she touched my dick."
"Where?"
"MY DICK! Are you not listening?"
"Settle down, asshole. Where were you when she touched..."
His face contorts to a grimace. "You know... your..."
"My dick? At school."
"HOLY SHIT ! What the hell are they letting happen in schools these days?"
"What?" I yell, frustrated. "No! It's not like she pulled my pants down in the cafeteria while we were all eating lunch and decided to tug me.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“The way he cares for me—the way he protects me. It's fierce.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I remember thinking that I'd give up all other senses if it meant I could hear you laugh again.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Brain: You have no problem getting off, shut your whore mouth. Body: Did you just call my mouth a whore?”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Then I put the keys in the ignition, squeal like a girl when it turns over, and drive off...in my fucking Delorean. Bitches.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“This is the first of many first times for us. It doesn't matter that we've experienced it all. It's different this time; there are no questions, no uncertainties. You and me, babe, forever”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“I know, and I do trust you, but when you said it was a surprise I thought you meant 'Here, Luce. I got you a unicorn.' not 'Here, Luce, jump in the river.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
“Being with Cameron— in his bed— it's not physical, or sexual. "I understand ," I tell her. "But you don't have to worry, it's not like that. Cameron— he's my strength. And right now, I don't know that I have any left.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
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“We all know the elementary form of politeness, that of the empty symbolic gesture, a gesture-an offer-which is meant to be rejected. In John Irving's A Prayer for
Owen Meany, after the little boy Owen accidentally kills John's-his best friend's, the narrator's-mother, he is, of course, terribly upset, so, to show how sorry he is, he discreetly delivers to John a gift of the complete collection of color photos of baseball stars, his most precious possession; however, Dan, John's delicate stepfather, tells him that the proper thing to do is to return the gift. What we have here is symbolic exchange at its purest: a gesture made to be rejected; the point, the "magic" of symbolic exchange, is that, although at the end we are where we were at the beginning, the overall result of the operation is not zero but a distinct gain for both parties, the pact of solidarity. And is not something similar part of our everyday mores? When, after being engaged in a fierce competition for a job promotion with my closest friend, I win, the proper thing to do is to offer to withdraw, so that he will get the promotion, and the proper thing for him to do is to reject my offer-in this way, perhaps, our friendship can be saved....
Milly's offer is the very opposite of such an elementary gesture of politeness: although it also is an offer that is meant to be rejected, what makes hers different from the symbolic empty offer is the cruel alternative it imposes on its addressee: I offer you wealth as the supreme proof of my saintly kindness, but if you accept my offer, you will be marked by an indelible stain of guilt and moral corruption; if you do the right thing and reject it, however, you will also not be simply righteous-your very rejection will function as a retroactive admission of your guilt, so whatever Kate and Densher do, the very choice Milly's bequest confronts them with makes them guilty.”
― Slavoj Žižek, quote from The Parallax View
“the value of work? Have I taught them self-reliance? Have I taught them to take care of each”
― Douglas Preston, quote from The Codex
“Nothing is stranger, more delicate, than the relationship between people who know each other only by sight—who encounter and observe each other daily, even hourly, and yet are compelled by the constraint of convention or by their own temperament to keep up the pretense of being indifferent strangers, neither greeting nor speaking to each other. Between them is uneasiness and overstimulated curiosity, the nervous excitement of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need to know and to communicate; and above all, too, a kind of strained respect. For man loves and respects his fellow man for as long as he is not yet in a position to evaluate him, and desire is born of defective knowledge. It”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
“Because I see
A rainstorm in June
Just before the sun
The black of night
Just before the stars
And, girl, I see your ghost
Just before our dawn”
― Laura Miller, quote from My Butterfly
“When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn’t think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Inn at Rose Harbor
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