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?”
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“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

“Shocked at this rebuke, Sarah took a step backward. “But I…I am the daughter of a marquess. I cannot marry either—”

“You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival.”
― Pamela Clare, quote from Defiant

“The only thing in your hands is your life—make it as rich as possible.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“the people who can finish and finish at the same pace or stronger than when they started, those are the ones who are going to succeed; those are the ones who are going to be great.”
― Tim Tebow, quote from Through My Eyes

“See, that’s what I want more of. A little spunk!"
"Fuck off!" I yell, shocking myself with my vulgar language.
"Ooh, yes, carry on, you filthy-mouthed bitch!"
I gasp and swing around, finding him grinning from ear to ear. "Wanker."
"Cow."
"Tosser."
He grins some more. "Dog."
"Shirt-lifter," I retort.
"Tart."
I recoil, horrified. "I am not a tart!”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Promised

“We think we know them, but we really don’t. We let ourselves be deceived because we are always expecting the best out of those who seem willing to provide it.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The High Druid's Blade

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