“To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Sent
“Thanks a lot! She went and hid somewhere else, somewhere safe- and left me to deal with Mr. Pyromaniac 1483!”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Sent
“Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Sent
“I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Sent
“إن النوارس مثل معظم الناس ومعظم المخلوقات الأخرى، تقضي معظم وقتها لا تفعل شيئا، لا تفعل إلا مجرد الوقوف هناك. يمكنك ان تقول إن ذلك نوع من الانتظار. أن تقف في هذا العالم منتظراً : الوجبة التالية، أو الموت، أو النوم.”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from Other Colors: Essays and A Story
“let us walk into the New Year never forgetting the steps we have taken behind us, for they are the map we leave for others to follow. So”
― quote from The Triple Goddess
“There was a lump in her throat as she watched him fidget with the buttons on his vest, and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, quote from The Geography of You and Me
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero fucks whether it’ll ever see it. On the day I die, it’ll be calculating what to have for dinner as it bombards itself with pain signals from my amputated legs or my clocked-out heart.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Unteachable
“There’s never a right time for you to fall. It’s why they call it falling. It’s an accident. In one second. Just pray that wherever you land, you’re not there alone.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
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