“I strongly believe if God had intended man - or woman - to jog, he'd have scaled way back on breast size and sent some of that padding to the soles of our feet. Just sayin'.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Hold your head up, Grace. Even when you’re dying inside—especially then—hold it up.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Do the laws against sexual assault not apply to strippers? To girlfriends?”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“I don't have a K in my name, so I guess I'm out of the klub. Like I even give a krap.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“What the hell, just what the hell was wrong with how I looked today? Why does he care if I wear eye-black like the football team? It's my face. It's my body. I can dress it up or down however I want. Why is that such a hard concept for guys to accept?”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Guys are so dumb. You actually believe this crap. You waste half your lives trying to prove to everybody and their mother how tough you are, how strong, how manly, and then say crap like, 'Ooo, baby, you make me so hard,' because there's absolutely no way you can control your own body.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Dude, the key to scoring with a chick like that is to show her what you can do for her— not to her.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Giving up is easy, not right. If doing the right thing were easy, nobody would ever do stuff they know is wrong, like kiss their daughter’s dance instructor or rape an unconscious girl who already said no.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Grace is a girl. That’s it. You want to slap on any other names, knock yourself out. But don’t ever forget she’s a girl first, and we don’t treat girls like that. Feel me?”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“He shouldn’t have touched Grace. She liked me. Damn it, she liked me. But he just stands there like the god he thinks he is while the rest of us pay his dues.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“The word hangs in the air for a moment and then falls away, almost like even it knows it has no business being used to describe me. I’m not brave. I’m scared. I’m so freakin’ scared, I can’t see straight, and I can’t see straight because I’m too scared to look very far. I’m a train wreck. All I’m doing is trying to hold on to what I have left.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“For what it's worth, any man who 'tries to score' with a girl he's not dating isn't much of a man in my eyes.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“I defended myself from a physical attack by that student, Mr. Jordan. Mrs. Weir knows Lindsay hates me, did nothing when she called me names in her classroom, and then left us alone.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“Rules, regulations, rights—what about my rights? Zac McMahon belongs behind bars. I don’t care how bright he is, how high he scored on his SATs, or how many saves he makes.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
Patty Blount
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“Six months since we met up
again we are inseparable,
an intricate weave.
No longer do I believe
this is a temporary fling.
More like total commitment.
More like I have walked
down the aisle, holding
hands with the monster.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Glass
“One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”
― Flann O'Brien, quote from At Swim-Two-Birds
“The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from The Van Alen Legacy
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time - like the light of that star up there, which may in reality be already quenched, when it looks to us to be shining its brightest.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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