“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.
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.”
― Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Cancer
“That Nick is a nice boy."
I eyed her. "He doesn't like me."
"Really? Are you trying to convince yourself or me? Because I found him pressing a bandage to your head while you were passed out drooling on the couch.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Need
“The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, quote from Wintergirls
“Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.”
― Marilynne Robinson, quote from Gilead
“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
― Gillian Flynn, quote from Sharp Objects
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