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“Tears are like lies. The more you use them, the less they’re worth. The moral of the story is: STOP FUCKING CRYING.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“The point is that people need to stop bitching about how things should be and learn to live with how they are.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“If you find yourself caring about something, just remind yourself that you don’t need to give a fuck. Caring is for nicegirls.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“Limit yourself to wines with names you can’t pronounce that are made from grapes harvested during or before Full House season one.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“And even if you don’t have material possessions, pretending like you have your shit together is the best way to have your shit together until you actually do.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“So hold your head up high, reserve your smiles for those who really deserve them, and let the world know it’s your bitch.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“In a world where we’re constantly being reassured that it’s what’s on the inside that counts, it’s essential to understand that’s bullshit.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“While Nice is just a place in France, happiness will always be a foreign state of mind. But fuck it. Let's rage.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“You may not know the word, but you definitely know the girl. She’s the girl who has guys wrapped around her finger, whose outfit is always perfectly conceived, and who magically accomplishes whatever she wants, whether it’s getting an amazing job at twenty-two or engaged at twenty-five, and she does it effortlessly. She may seem unapproachable, but those who are lucky enough to know her are likely to claim that she’s “really great if you’re friends with her, but she can be a huge bitch.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“While FB started off as something elite and cool, now the people who use it the most are the biggest freaks on the planet, which we’re chill with, because it’s now easier to spot them and then ignore them in the real world.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“Abbrevs is to English as English is to Olde English.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“Tears are like lies, the more you use them, the less they're worth.”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“The point is that people need to stop bitching about how things should be and learn to live with how they are. Once”
― quote from Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
“You don't need to explain. I know who you are.'
'Do you? Because that would make one of us.”
― Elle Cosimano, quote from Nearly Gone
“A broken child," Sabine said. But still just a child.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, quote from Warrior Witch
“Because street harassment is perhaps the clearest manifestation of the spectrum of sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault that exists within our society. Yes, it starts out small; but allowing those ‘minor’ transgressions gives licence to the more serious ones, and eventually to all-out abuse. We’ve heard the same words and phrases crossing over and echoing and repeating, from women who are shouted at in the street to women who are assaulted and women who are victims of domestic violence in their own homes. The language is the same. And if we say it’s acceptable for men to assume power and ownership over women they don’t know verbally in public, then, like it or not, we’re also saying something much wider about gender relations – something that carries over into our personal relationships and our sexual exchanges. Because this is a line that doesn’t need to be blurred. It should be clear and simple. Take it from the women whose experiences started out with just a little ‘harmless’ street harassment – a sexual ‘compliment’ or a wolf whistle, or a ‘Hey baby’ – but then turned nasty, became full-blown attacks. Ask them what the problem is with a harmless bit of fun.”
― Laura Bates, quote from Everyday Sexism
“We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.”
― Jane Hamilton, quote from The Book of Ruth
“Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.
So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet;
But a Pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet.
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to Its delight:
Joys in anothers loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.
- "The Clod and the Pebble”
― William Blake, quote from The Complete Poems
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