“But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes life is just messy no matter what you do," she [Emma] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Believe in yourself. That's real magic.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes things weren’t all that complicated. We just make them complicated in order to hide from them. “I’m”
― quote from Reawakened
“Evidence doesn't always lead us to the truth," he [August] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Prodigy
“To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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