“I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.”
― quote from Shift
“I believe in grey...Some things aren't straightforward. Not everything is true or false, real or imaginary, black or white. It's not that simple.”
― quote from Shift
“Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.”
― quote from Shift
“One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.”
― quote from Shift
“... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.”
― quote from Shift
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”
― quote from Shift
“The ocean is not to be trusted. It's dark and cold with a treacherous current that pulls you whichever way it wants. It can drown you or it refuse to drown you.”
― quote from Shift
“She was the whisper of a shadow.”
― quote from Shift
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Until it isn't.”
― quote from Shift
“The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn’t see it now, but I’d rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I’d ever heard.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, quote from Bud, Not Buddy
“Se mai potrò, affiggerò sopra St.Louis un avviso per tutti i sicari professionisti."
"E cosa ci scriverai?"
"'Qui c'è una bastarda più grossa e più cattiva di voi.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Flirt
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from Civilization and Its Discontents
“He[Crystal's father] had found my height amusing, referring to me as his "little girl" at every opportunity even though I could see the bald patch on top of his head fringed by curls when we stood side by side.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Seeking Crystal
“Don’t ignore me while I’m trying to break
up with you!”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Rescue
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