“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“That the sun still rose the next morning was incredibly unjust. Someone good had died. People still woke up, had breakfast, went to work, and it was wrong. Flower petals still opened in the sun’s early light, and animals still grazed the day away, their minds untroubled. Someone good had died and the world had the audacity to move on.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“He looks into my eyes,
mine mirrored in his,
and we each see a boy,
lost in pauper’s bliss.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“I don't care what you are, I like you for who you are.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
“You can’t have both of them,” Allison said. “There’s a reason you never see three old people walking through a park and holding hands. It just doesn’t happen.” Ben”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer
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“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”
― Nathanael West, quote from Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
“I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, quote from A Hero of Our Time
“Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!”
― MaryJanice Davidson, quote from Undead and Unwed
“Omri refused to get involved in an argument. He was somehow scared that if he talked about the Indian, something bad would happen. In fact, as the day went on and he longed more and more to get home, he began to feel certain that the whole incredible happening—well, not that it hadn’t happened, but that something would go wrong. All his thoughts, all his dreams were centered on the miraculous, endless possibilities opened up by a real, live, miniature Indian of his very own. It would be too terrible if the whole thing turned out to be some sort of mistake.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, quote from The Indian in the Cupboard
“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, quote from Elsewhere
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Shut Out
Unbreakable
Come Away with Me
Skin Game
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