“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Do you believe i am the Pravus?”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“People says it gets easier. People are stupid."
-Vlad”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“It's funny how getting stabbed through the heart by a friend can bring your whole school year down.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“If I ever find you lurking about in my thoughts again, Vlad, I will be most displeased. You stay out of my mind, and I'll sty out of yours. Agreed?”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Ninth Grade Slays
“Sophie had been chiefly concerned in those days whether her mother would be able to bear the ordeal of losing two children at the same moment. But now, as Mother stood there, so brave and good, Sophie had a feeling of sudden release from anxiety. Again her mother spoke; she wanted to give her daughter something she might hold fast to: "You know, Sophie - Jesus." Earnestly, firmly, almost imperiously, Sophie replied, "Yes, but you too." Then she left - free, fearless, and calm.”
― quote from The White Rose
“Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first.” Joe”
― Bob Burg, quote from The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
“The thing I realised instantly was that at first, Wag had blamed all of this on luck. But he'd made that luck happen. He just hadn't realised it. He'd made a series of 'correct' choices, which had let him, bass in hand, to his girl. Maybe we can all do that. Maybe we can all change our fortunes. Maybe there's no such thing as destiny - there's just a series of choices we create ourselves. I guess it's only when we look at how a No could have changed our lives for the worse that we realise the value of the tiny yeses that fly at us each day. - 293”
― Danny Wallace, quote from Yes Man
“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]”
― Damon Galgut, quote from In a Strange Room
“Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain. Lee’s charges at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, Burnside’s at Fredericksburg, Grant’s at Vicksburg, and many others left the dead strewn everywhere for no discernible military gain. The Sioux would never have followed men who led such bloody, futile assaults, but the Americans made heroes out of these generals—and the higher a general’s losses, it seemed, the greater the hero he became.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, quote from Crazy Horse and Custer
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