“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
“Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
“Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd
“But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were to be trapped within it. Imitation changes, not the impersonator, but the impersonated.”
― Peter Ackroyd, quote from The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, quote from 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Sometimes even now I think I see him in the street or standing in a window or bent over a book in a coffee shop. And in that instant, before I understand that it's someone else, my lungs tighten and I lose my breath.”
― Siri Hustvedt, quote from The Blindfold
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