“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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“The Bostonians is special because it never was ‘titivated’ for the New York edition, for its humour and its physicality, for its direct engagement with social and political issues and the way it dramatized them, and finally for the extent to which its setting and action involved the author and his sense of himself. But the passage above suggests one other source of its unique quality. It has been called a comedy and a satire – which it is. But it is also a tragedy, and a moving one at that. If its freshness, humour, physicality and political relevance all combine to make it a peculiarly accessible and enjoyable novel, it is also an upsetting and disturbing one, not simply in its treatment of Olive, but also of what she tries to stand for. (Miss Birdseye is an important figure in this respect: built up and knocked down as she is almost by fits and starts.) The book’s jaundiced view of what Verena calls ‘the Heart of humanity’ (chapter 28) – reform, progress and the liberal collectivism which seems so essential an ingredient in modern democracy – makes it contentious to this day. An aura of scepticism about the entire political process hangs about it: salutary some may say; destructive according to others. And so, more than any other novel of James’s, it reminds us of the literature of our own time. The Bostonians is one of the most brilliant novels in the English language, as F. R. Leavis remarked;27 but it is also one of the bleakest. In no other novel did James reveal more of himself, his society and his era, and of the human condition, caught as it is between the blind necessity of progress and the urge to retain the old. It is a remarkably experimental modern novel, written by a man of conservative values. It is judgemental about people with whom its author identified, and lenient towards attitudes hostile to large areas of James’s own intellectual and personal inheritance. The strength of the contradictions embodied in the novel are a guarantee of the pleasure it has to give.”
― Henry James, quote from The Bostonians
“The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, quote from The Blood of Others
“Lust was a weed, a nightshade vine, a nettle, impossible to uproot as the mugwort I pulled in the fields of Illinois, so while in the daylight I was a flower of virtuous resolution, at night I was motherless in a cold kitchen, starved for the warm arms of a sweetheart and pretty words of approval.”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
“Roger Berkowitz, CEO of Legal Sea Foods—a $215-million company with over four thousand employees—explained in an interview with Inc. magazine how his work style depends on the forces of nagging. “People who want me to do something . . . have to remind me repeatedly,” he explained. “It’s management by being nagged.” The reliance on—and even the encouragement of—nagging may at first appear bothersome. It may be annoying to be constantly reminded about something while trying to immerse yourself in a creative project. However, amidst the chaos of meetings and trying to prioritize the elements of multiple projects, nagging from others helps you prioritize by natural selection. When someone is consistently bothering you about something, chances are you have become a bottleneck in the team’s productivity.”
― quote from Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
“She'd spent seven long years without so much as a hug, and she was starved for physical affection. She had known what it was like to be touched and kissed, and she had no idea how much she'd missed it until that very moment.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from Everything and the Moon
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