“Being brave isn’t the same as not being scared, though, it means going through with something even if it totally terrifies you.”
― Kara Taylor, quote from Prep School Confidential
“Why can't I stay away? I think it's partly because he wears Burt's Bees lip balm, and I'm a sucker for a guy with well-conditioned lips.”
― Kara Taylor, quote from Prep School Confidential
“I like to mix it up. Keep things interesting."
I don't say anything, because it sounds like something I'd say, and I don't like when people take my lines.”
― Kara Taylor, quote from Prep School Confidential
“I never was good at staying away from boys who look really good in ties.”
― Kara Taylor, quote from Prep School Confidential
“They all think it's better to exist within a corrupt hierarchy instead of being outside it, trying to fight it.”
― Kara Taylor, quote from Prep School Confidential
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“Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, quote from My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“I'd leave too, but i still had half a beer left. You can't just leave a beer like that. It's un-American”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
“Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: „Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell.“ Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, quote from Shosha
“My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew them seven times.”
― Susan Fletcher, quote from Shadow Spinner
“I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was standing, finally, in the place where everything begins: the tree in the garden, the tree of knowledge that, as I learned long ago, is something divided, something that because growth occurs only through the medium of time, brings both pleasure and, finally, sorrow.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, quote from The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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