“Two plus two. I got this shit.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“Being a girl doesn't make you weak, Parker. It makes you special.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“Everyone got behind Fox, the name the guys had dubbed the red truck.
"Fox?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah," Isaac said with a grin. "Our truck is hot, like Megan Fox.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“You couldn’t control everything, because it wasn’t all meant to be perfect. Sometimes things needed to be messy.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“You're living with a bunch of hot guys, and instead of finding Cole and experiencing some real-life anatomy, you're shacking up with a textbook like a pariah.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“You take up the most room.” “Nobody asked your opinion,” Cole said, glaring at his younger brother in the rearview mirror.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“I don't know what to do about him, Sammy." (Jackie)
"It's not what you do about him. It's what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I'm assuming he has, and show him what New York has to offer.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“In their sleep, both boys kept moving closer to me, and when I finally drifted off, there was one arm wrapped around my stomach and one hand intertwined with mine.”
― Ali Novak, quote from My Life with the Walter Boys
“You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and improving what they think most valuable? Is true happiness any part of your family-view?—So far from it, that none of your family but yourself could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate; and wondering what ails them that they have not happiness when they have riches, think the cause is want of more; and so go on heaping up till Death, as greedy an accumulator as themselves, gathers them into his garner!”
― Samuel Richardson, quote from Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
“Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
“I guess we're all a bunch of mismatched couples - that actually fit”
― Simone Elkeles, quote from Return to Paradise
“This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast.”
― Justin Cronin, quote from The Twelve
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