“I can deal with anything, as long as I know it's the truth. It's the lies that are hard.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“You're the first girl who's had the guts to touch my controls.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“I want to be the one protecting you.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“You have the poutiest lips I've ever seen."
"Pouty?' I snorted. "Like I look bratty?"
"Like you look kissable.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“He nodded, his forehead fused with mine. "My head fogs when you kiss me like that. I can't think," he murmured.
"It does?" I grinned. "I like making your head fog." I kissed him again.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“You feel control drain away like sand falling from your fingertips. You can't hold onto it. It's gone. And so are you.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“But there you are. Helpless. Unable to defend yourself. Vulnerable. Victim.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“Thirty minutes until I saw Weston. I shouldn't be this excited about a ride home.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Penitence
“Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Prodigy
“ذكر أحدهم مزايا المدارس أمام هاينموت تويالاكت زعيم الأنوف المخرومة فأجاب أنهم لايريدون مدارس الرجل الأبيض ، فسأله المفوض لماذا لاتريدون المدارس؟ أجابه: لانها ستعلمنا أن يكون لنا كنائس
ألا تريدون الكنائس؟-
لا لانريد الكنائس-
ولماذا لاتريدونها؟-
لأنها ستعلمنا كيق نتشاجر حول الله، ولانريد أن نتعلم ذلك. قد نتشاجر مع البشر أحياناً حول أمور على هذه الأرض ولكننا لن نتشاجر حول الله. لا نريد تعلم ذلك”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature…yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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