“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“Her purse is like Mary Poppins's bag - it holds way more than should be possible.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“But revenge is hollow. I'd prefer amnesia.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“You’ll get over being mad at me.”
“Not likely.”
Step, step, step—
“I promise not to gloat about it when you do.”
“I won’t.”
Step, step, step—
“Because I want to be with you so badly I don’t care if you’re screaming at me the whole time as long as I’m with you.”
I stop dead in my tracks.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“To: lostphoebe@theacademy.gr
From: gblake@theacademy.gr
Subject: If I could do it over...
...I wouldn't treat you so badly.
I'm sorry.
Today wasn't about the bet.
Give me another chance.
G
Just like him: brief, cryptic, and full of crap.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“I've survived beach bunny cheerleaders, a sluthunting , ex-boyfriend, and five years of cross-country camp. I'm not afraid of some throwback to ancient myth with astrocious highlights and a Barbra Streisand nose.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“E-mail can be so impersonal - and so open to interpretation.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“A fairy tale,” he says, “is a story we wish were true.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“If he’s not going to apologize, I’m not going to be more than barely civil. I realize he is a boy and predisposed to abhor admitting he’s wrong. He, however, has given me no reason to stick my neck out.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“You couldn’t see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Marriage of Opposites
“the need to create is a drive that lies deep within each of us. We all strive to build empires, whether of stone or people or words. Empires we hope will survive us. In the end, though, each of us must necessarily leave our creations behind. All we can hope for is to also leave behind a worthy successor to continue our work. Or who can at least maintain it for a season.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Choices of One
“Where was the excitement it dependability? Where was the spontaneity in a predictable world? He could offer her an eternity of challenges and passion, of quiet, tender moments stolen in the depths of riotous flames and ravaging storms - tranquillity amidst the chaos.”
― A.G. Howard, quote from The Moth in the Mirror
“He comes with western winds, with evening's
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the
thickest stars.
Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire,
And visions rise, and change, that kill me with
desire.”
― Emily Brontë, quote from The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte [with Biographical Introduction]
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.”
― Thomas Sowell, quote from The Quest for Cosmic Justice
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