“Sometimes we expect more that people are capable of giving at the moment”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“We can't let boys define how we feel about ourselves. You have to know who you are before you should let any boy worth anything in.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“Hey guys,' I said. 'Don't be idiots. This is Evan. Evan, the angry-looking one is Jerom, the constipated-looking one is Nathan, and the goofball on the right is Gage.'
Gage laughed. 'Constipated, Nathan? We said to look fierce.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“I don’t know how to get over it.” “You can only go through it.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“I knew why I cared. Why this mattered so much. Why his opinion was the only thing that mattered. I was more than crushing on him. I loved Braden.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“There was nothing that made a girl feel better about a guy humiliating her than a different cute guy asking her out.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“Bedazzled? What the heck was a bedazzle?”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“-You gotta do your best to be the best, right?”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“I looked up recurring dreams.
Dreams are messages, things our minds want us to learn. Recurring dreams can be really important messages. The often come in the form of nightmares. Recurring dreams could represent real-life problem that hasn't been dealt with or resolved. Overcoming or resolving that problem could help one move past the recurring dream.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“I can do both at the same time," he assured me. "I'm talented like that.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“Dancing wasn't quite the same as running . . . or any sport, for that matter. I didn't feel like I had a purpose, a goal. But after a while I let my mind relax and realized not everything had to have a point. Some things could just be for the fun of it. I looked over at Amber dancing next to me. She smiled, then hooked her arm in mine and twirled me around. My surroundings blurred and I soaked the moment in, deciding this night was something I could do again.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“Maybe I should go to the concert. I was a sporting-event type of girl, not a loud-music event one. At least that's what I had always thought. But here I was standing in this store, in these clothes, hearing the sound of laughter in the back room, and realizing that maybe there was more to me than I realized.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“we can’t let boys define how we feel about ourselves. You have to know who you are before you should let any boy worth anything in.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
Kasie West
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“changes in the story were the result of normal editing.”
― Bryan Burrough, quote from Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
“Pete was getting on the others’ nerves. It wasn’t that he did anything wrong: he was a nice guy and a good enough drummer. It was simply that his personality was different: he preferred to sit on his own rather than join in with the others’ non-stop banter.”
― Cynthia Lennon, quote from John
“Women are riddles—I only argued upon the common sense of the thing.”
― Frederick Marryat, quote from The Children of the New Forest
“there is a natural propriety in the companionship: always to be noted in confidence between a child and a person who has any merit of reality and genuineness: which is admirably pleasant.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”
― John Piper, quote from Don't Waste Your Life
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