“So, you're single. I'm single. Let's mingle”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“He says, "Keats for my Keats. Look inside."
I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,is an old inscription.
1903, To my love.
-S
Underneath is more pencil, written in Brooklyn's neat print.
Even Keats speaks of chaos.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
All my love,
B”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“I look out at the ocean glittering in the moonlight and wonder where he is. Where is my perfect boy? Could he be staring at the moon at this exact moment, wishing for me, too?”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“Women dress for women, if we dressed for me, we'd all be running around naked.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“My phone buzzes again.
Crush: You're single. I'm single. Let's mingle.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“Emery gives me a rock that she's colored on. She whispers in my ear. "You can smash people's fingers with it when they're mean.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“I swear to God, I think my panties just melted off my body. How can Crush just talking sex make me hot?”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“I glance down, and my eyes get big.
"What?" He glances down, realizes why my eyes are big, and shrugs his shoulders. "It's morning."
"It's cute. Can I keep it?”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“You smell salty," he says. "Like the ocean." He leans closer to me and licks up the side of my face. "You taste salty too. Maybe I should grab a bottle of tequila and we should have some fun." He moves his eyebrows up and down. "What do you say? We'll do some shots and I'll lick you all over.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“I think it was Betsey Johnson that said women dress for other women. If we dressed for men, we’d all run around naked.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“You can’t control when you’ll fall in love.” I ignore her comment because hell yes I can. And I will.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“So you’re going shopping with your ex-boyfriend to find an outfit to snare your next boyfriend? Oh, what a tangled web you weave.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“After a kiss like that, he should know I’m the one. He should be down on his knees begging me to marry him and have his little Hottie babies. There shouldn’t be anything to think about.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“Cush: Pick you up at 7. Look hot. It’ll distract him. Me: You’re bad. Cush: Most girls tell me I’m good. Wanna find out?”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
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“Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego—all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.”
― Hermann Broch, quote from The Sleepwalkers
“It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, quote from God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Perception is of course intimately tied to preconception. I have, as is true for each of us, a pair of cultural eyeglasses that will determine to greater or lesser degree what will be in focus, what will be a blur, what gives me a headache, and what I cannot see. I was raised a Christian—the mythology resides deep in my bones—and I know the story of Jesus nearly as well as I know my own. Until my late teens I couldn’t see some of the darker acts perpetrated in the name of Christ. I still feel a twinge each time I say, “I am not a Christian,” a slight apprehension that I may have gone too far. Sometimes I look up, a small part of my upbringing still telling me that my blasphemy will call forth a bolt of lightning from the sky.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from A Language Older Than Words
“She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to understand the sacrifice I have made. I gave away a piece of myself, my soul! But I did it out of love, never think otherwise. I made the choice to live my life without her because I knew in my heart she would be better off without me and I could not bear to know that a life created out of such perfect love would be forced to live with the ugly truth of her birth. I thought,” she sobbed, breaking down before him. “I thought…I did the right thing.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, quote from Addicted
“for a man functions best if he ventures out into the world from a domestic setting in which his restless sexual and procreative energies are given liberty.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
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