“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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“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.”
― quote from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
“I Hate Being Bipolar. It’s Awesome!”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“The return journey was nothing like the arrival. Bea couldn’t wait to get out of the car. She remembered feeling like this before, with Brandon, on several occasions. It was an excruciating need to escape the confinement of being in too close a proximity to passive-aggressive behaviour. She hated conflict, after a row, it would take her hours, perhaps days to become fully relaxed and herself again. She became anxious, not entirely brought on by his coldness, but by old memories, and the way her body would instinctively react to them. It wasn’t a feeling that she wanted to experience with someone new, of whom she’d told his sister only a short time ago that she was falling in love with.”
― Tracey-anne McCartney, quote from A Carpet of Purple Flowers
“Oops is the sound we make when we improve our beliefs and strategies; so to look back at a time and not see anything you did wrong means that you haven’t learned anything or changed your mind since then.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, quote from Rationality: From AI to Zombies
“Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.”
― John Calvin, quote from Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
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