Jordan Sonnenblick · 265 pages
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“There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“You’ll learn one day that real apologies don’t come with a BUT in the middle.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from The Long Winter
“You are all I’ve ever wanted,” he said. “You are the whole of my heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Ruin and Rising
“They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, quote from Hawksong
“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isn’t wrong, when you know exactly how much he’s fought those feelings. People can’t control matters of the heart, Warren.
They can only control their actions, which is exactly what Ridge did. He lost control once for ten seconds, but after that, every single time temptation reared its ugly head, he walked in the other direction. The only thing Ridge has done wrong is fail to delete his messages, because by doing so, he failed to protect Maggie. He failed to protect her from the harsh truth that people don’t get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.” I look up at the ceiling and blink back tears. “He was choosing to stay in love with her, Warren. Why can’t she see that? This will kill him so much more than it’s killing her.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Maybe Someday
“There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Avatar
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