Quotes from See How They Run

“that history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“You are my best friend. And sometimes I like to check and make sure my friends aren’t dead.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“So you’re a secret society … of librarians?”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“Not all people with scars are evil.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“Some people, after all, don’t care who they yell at as long as they have a reason to keep shouting.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“It's not safe out there," he says, too close to my ear.
"Yeah...well..." I look at him. "Maybe it's not safe in here either.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“Every girl thinks about growing up in a palace. Few ever ponder living in a cage.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“Are you ashamed of me or ashamed of him?” “Both,”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“And no matter how many people surround you, that is still the loneliest place on earth.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“I've been wrong, and I've been crazy. But this is the first time I've ever truly felt like a fool.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“given enough rope, eventually, I am bound to hang myself.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“mostly it makes me want to pull Lila out of Alexei’s arms and toss her in the pool. I”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

“I can't help but stare at his swollen eye and bruised jaw. He looks like the god of war, damaged and scarred, but still standing. I'm not thinking as I reach up and gently run a finger across his battered face.”
― Ally Carter, quote from See How They Run

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“Recurring negative emotions do sometimes contain a message, as do illnesses. But any changes that you make, whether they have to do with your work, your relationships, or your surroundings, are ultimately only cosmetic unless they arise out of a change in your level of consciousness. And as far as that is concerned, it can only mean one thing: becoming more present. When you have reached a certain degree of presence, you don't need negativity anymore to tell you what is needed in your life situation. But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present. WHENEVER YOU FEEL NEGATIVITY ARISING WITHIN YOU, whether caused by an external factor, a thought, or even nothing in particular that you are aware of, look on it as a voice saying, “Attention. Here and Now. Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.”
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“I have met only a very few people - and most of these were not Americans - who had any real desire to be free. Freedom is hard to bear. It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and, internationally, for many millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster. Whoever doubts this last statement has only to open his ears, his heart, his mind, to the testimony of - for example - any Cuban peasant or any Spanish poet, and ask himself what he would feel about us if he were the victim of our performance in pre-Castro Cuba or in Spain. We defend our curious role in Spain by referring to the Russian menace and the necessity of protecting the free world. It has not occurred to us that we have simply been mesmerized by Russia, and that the only real advantage Russia has in what we think of as a struggle between the East and the West is the moral history of the Western world. Russia's secret weapon is the bewilderment and despair and hunger of millions of people of whose existence we are scarecely aware. The Russian Communists are not in the least concerned about these people. But our ignorance and indecision have had the effect, if not of delivering them into Russian hands, of plunging them very deeply in the Russian shadow, for which effect - and it is hard to blame them - the most articulate among them, and the most oppressed as well, distrust us all the more... We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is. Anyway, the point here is that we are living in an age of revolution, whether we will or no, and that America is the only Western nation with both the power, and, as I hope to suggest, the experience that may help to make these revolutions real and minimize the human damage.”
― James Baldwin, quote from The Fire Next Time

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