“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
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“We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done dictate what we will do.”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Tempted
“When he thought of the old man he could see him suddenly in a field in the spring, trying to move a gray boulder. He always knew instinctively the ones you could move, even though the greater part was buried in the earth, and he expected you to move the rock and not discuss it. A hard and silent man, an honest man, a noble man. Little humor but sometimes the door opened and you saw the warmth within a long way off, a certain sadness, a slow, remote, unfathomable quality as if the man wanted to be closer to the world but did not know how. Once Chamberlain had a speech memorized from Shakespeare and gave it proudly, the old man listening but not looking, and Chamberlain remembered it still: 'What a piece of work is man...in action how like an angel!' And the old man, grinning, had scratched his head and then said stiffly, 'Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin' angel.' And Chamberlain had gone on to school to make an oration on the subject: Man, the Killer Angel. And when the old man heard about it he was very proud, and Chamberlain felt very good remembering it. The old man was proud of his son, the colonel.”
― Michael Shaara, quote from The Killer Angels
“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”
― Sun Tzu, quote from The Art of War
“If you thirst you may drink.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Silver Chair
“I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard!
It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!
I don't want to go outside. I won't even if Jennie asks me to.
For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow.
But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot loose my way.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, quote from The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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