“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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“Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos they were imbedded in. And so they ate, and talked, and enjoyed each other’s company; this was the way it had been in the caves, on the savannah, in the tenements and the trenches and the cities huddling under bombardment.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“ان ما يميز المجتمع في العصور الوسطى عن المجتمع الحديث هو نقصه من الحرية الفردية. لقد كان كل فرد من الفترة المبكرة مقيدا بدوره في النظام الاجتماعي. لم تكن امام الانسان سوى فرصة واهنة للتحرك اجتماعيا من طبقة الى اخرى, بل لا يكود يكون قادرا على الحركة حتى جغرافيا من مدينة الى اخرى او من بلد الى آخر. وفيما عدا استثناءات قليلة عليه ان يمكث حيث ولد. بل انه كان في الاغلب غير حر في ان يلبس كما يهوى او ان يأكل كما يشاء. وكان على الاسطى ان يبع حسب سعر معين وكان على الفلاح ان يبيع عند مكان معين. وكان محرما على عضو النقابة ان يفشي اية اسرار تقنية خاصة بالانتاج لاي فرد ليس عضوا في نقابته وكان مرغما على ان يدع زملاءه من اعضاء نقابته يشاركونه في اية عملية شراء مفيدة للمادة الخام. لقد هيمنت على الحياة الشخصية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية قواعد والزامات لم يفلت منها من الناحية العملية اي مجال من مجالات النشاط.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Remember, hurting is feeling and feeling is living, and isn’t it good to be alive?”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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