“Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“At the end, you find the beginning.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You need to take control of your own destiny.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Being discreet has never been your strong suit.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“People, he had said, were always being looked at as points, and they ought to be looked at as lines. There weren't any points, it was false to assume that a person ever was anything. He was always becoming something, always changing, always continuous and moving, like the wiggly line on a machine used to measure earthquake shocks. He was always what he was in the beginning, but never quite exactly what he was; he moved along a line dictated by his heritage and his environment, but he was subject to every sort of variation within the narrow limits of his capabilities.
...
She shut her mind on that too. There was danger in looking at people as lines. The past spread backward and you saw things in perspective that you hadn't seen then, and that made the future ominous, more ominous than if you just looked at the point, at the moment. There might be truth in what Bruce said, but there was not much comfort.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
“The Greek period inspired the greatest flowering of knowledge in human history, producing the forefathers of the entire Western intellectual tradition, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras and Euclid. It changed the world in ways both subtle and profound.”
― quote from Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
“Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from The Spook's Apprentice
“No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist’s wife.”
― Mie Hansson, quote from Where Pain Thrives
“I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.
And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Take a Bow
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