“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
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“So I looked with fascination at those people in their mobes, and tried to fathom what it would be like. Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them. People who couldn't live without story had been driven into the concents or into jobs like Yul's. All others had to look somewhere outside of work for a feeling that they were part of a story, which I guessed was why Sæculars were so concerned with sports, and with religion. How else could you see yourself as part of an adventure? Something with a beginning, middle, and end in which you played a significant part? We avout had it ready-made because we were a part of this project of learning new things. Even if it didn't always move fast enough for people like Jesry, it did move. You could tell where you were and what you were doing in that story. Yul got all of this for free by living his stories from day to day, and the only drawback was that the world held his stories to be of small account. Perhaps that was why he felt such a compulsion to tell them, not just about his own exploits in the wilderness, but those of his mentors.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Anathem
“Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from Crossing to Safety
“I didn't mean to hurt her.”
― Quinn Loftis, quote from Prince of Wolves
“She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
She wanted to control him.
He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.”
― Holly Black, quote from Tithe
“He never created a finish product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Second Foundation
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