Quotes from Nerve

“we've learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.”
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“Why should I pay to watch when I can be paid to play?”
― quote from Nerve

“I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness around us could be anywhere, anytime. I could be alive or dead. Okay, I choose alive. While I’m at it, I choose the darkness to be a gentle blanket on a moonless night, where I rest a few feet from a boy who’s warm and sweet. When he holds me, his heart beats strong with what I tell myself is passion, not fear.”
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“The calmness of dawn offers a daily promise that all things will shift back to normal”
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“Why does Seattle have so many crows? Don’t birds like warm weather?”
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“And I’ve got admirers. Okay, probably drunken geeks with nothing better to do than scroll through a thousand videos to check out cleavage shots in slow-mo, but still.”
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“Sweet is highly overrated." So is responsible, loyal, and every other adjective you'd find scrawled in my yearbook.”
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“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is taken, a part of your soul is stolen strikes me as a certain truth, because I feel my spirit being sucked out of me, into hundreds of all-seeing lenses that simply want to capture my fear, my anger, my performance.”
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“Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.”
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Popular quotes

“It was a chef’s knife,” I said, holding my hands about a foot apart. “And a very large one.”

“That’s what she said,” Ethan murmured.”
― Chloe Neill, quote from Biting Bad

“Galling as it may be to be helpless to redress the crying injustices of the past, symbolic expiation in the present can only create new injustices among the living and new problems for the future, when newborn babies enter the world with pre-packaged grievances against other babies born the same day. Both have their future jeopardized, not only by their internal strife but also by the increased vulnerability of disunited society to external dangers from nations and from international terrorist networks.”
― Thomas Sowell, quote from Black Rednecks and White Liberals

“I want it to be good. I don’t want to mess it up.”
“You couldn’t.”

“Why?”
“Because it’s you. And it’s me. Nothing means more to me in the world but this. But us.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Soul

“When you help an animal, do your absolute best to make sure you don’t harm it at the same time, and Never walk past a problem with an animal—fix it.”
― Terri Irwin, quote from Steve & Me

“Personally, if I were trying to discourage people from smoking, my sign would be a little different. In fact, I might even go too far in the opposite direction. My sign would say something like, "Smoke if you wish. But if you do, be prepared for the following series of events: First, we will confiscate your cigarette and extinguish it somewhere on the surface of your skin. We will then run you nicotine-stained fingers through a paper shredder and throw them into the street, where wild dogs will swallow them and then regurgitate them into the sewers, so that infected rats can further soil them before they're flushed out to sea with the rest of the city's filth. After such time, we will sysematically seek out your friends and loved one and destroy their lives."
Wouldn't you like to see a sign like that?”
― George Carlin, quote from When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

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