“You know what sucks about sorry? It's the worst word in the world. Because it always happens after you fuck up something good.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Failed a physics test," Nick said.
"You know how I solve that problem?" Said his twin. "I don't take physics.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“You're so damn worried about what everyone else wants. Well, you know what, Nick? You're going to disappoint people sometimes. You just are. And you know what else? They're either going to get over it or they're not. If they don't, it sucks. But it's not going to kill them, and it's sure not going to kill you.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“You’re going to break my heart. I can feel it.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Well you're definitely gay. A straight guy wouldn't be such a drama queen.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“You’re the only person alive who would use superpowers to be more dorky.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“I pissed off Quinn, and probably chased her into the arms of a psychopath. Oh, and I made out with another guy. It's a miracle our clothes stayed on.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Sucks being the girl, doesn't it?" Said Quinn.
"Shut up." But yes. It did.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Jesus, I wish I could stop fucking crying. So gay, right?'
Hunter put a hand on his shoulder. 'Don't do that to yourself, Nick.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Do you have your iPod?'
That was like asking if she'd brought her boobs along.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Damn it, Quinn, I don't even know what you're talking about." "I am taling about how I learned all your secrets from the Last Airbender last night." Becca looked almost incredulous. "A cartoon? What? You-wait-you-" Quinn watched sudden realization dawn on Becca's face.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Nick wanted to shove him off the bed and kick him in the face. Not aggressive, my ass.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Because it's easier to turn off worries in the dark.
Nick met his eyes in the darkness. "Yours or Mine?"
"Both.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“He could imagine the college rejection letters now.
'After learning that one kiss and a sleepless night led you to fail a test, we have decided you are no longer a fit for our institution.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Music always rode the air until he felt each beat through his whole body. But the air here was full of energy that sparked and rejoiced with the melody.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“That was the worst kind of hypocrisy, right? Hating someone for something you hated about yourself?”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“Adam trapped one of Nick's legs under his and shifted closer, pressing into him until there was no doubt he was happy to be there.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“A slap wouldn’t have pulled me out of the trance any faster.”
― Chloe Neill, quote from Some Girls Bite
“Even after years of constant abuse from her stepmother and her stepsisters, Cinderella remained a good person with high hopes. She never stopped believing in herself and in the good of the world. And although she married the prince in the end, Cinderella always had inner happiness. Her story shows that even in the worst of situations- even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everything can get better...”
― Chris Colfer, quote from The Wishing Spell
“That’s wrong, Mrs. Winning was thinking, you mustn’t ever talk about whether people like you, that’s bad taste.”
― Shirley Jackson, quote from The Lottery and Other Stories
“Thomas," she suggested, "you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Gathering Blue
“I am lying in the same bed where my mother died so long ago; on the same mattress,
beneath the same black wool coverlet she wrapped us in to sleep. I slept beside her, her
little girl, in the special place she made for me in her arms.
I think I can still feel the calm rhythm of her breathing; the palpitations and sighs that
soothed my sleep. . . . I think I feel the pain of her death. . . . But that isn't true.
Here I lie, flat on my back, hoping to forget my loneliness by remembering those times.
Because I am not here just for a while. And I am not in my mother's bed but in a black box
like the ones for burying the dead. Because I am dead.
I sense where I am, but I can think. . .”
― Juan Rulfo, quote from Pedro Páramo
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