Lynn Weingarten · 320 pages
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“Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for a person is to shield them from that which will not help them. Make the decision and then carry the burden yourself, bear the weight so that they don't have to.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“Finding a best friend is like finding a true love: when you meet yours, you just know.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“The messed-up thing is how so many people think your body is their business, especially if you're a girl.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“The world is only as fair as you make it.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“I know how quickly things can go away, how hard it can be to make them come back. You have to clench your jaw so tight you can barely stand it, grind sand between gritted teeth in a fire-hot mouth, then wait till it melts, spit out glass. Build it all again.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“Her eyes meet mine and she smiles. And I swear it's like the whole goddamn sun is beaming right out of it.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“I realize yes, this is done. After all this time, after so much thinking and worrying, clinging so tightly. Just like that, there is nothing to hold on to.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“Sometimes, when there’s danger, the answer is to curl into yourself and wait.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“I cranked the radio and sang loud. I needed to hear a live human voice, and I was my own best hope.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“Às vezes, as pessoas que mais precisam ser salvas não têm a menor ideia disso.”
― Lynn Weingarten, quote from Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
“FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH centuries were decisive for all the people of God. It was a particularly crucial period for the Christian West, which had not only succeeded in catching up with the other cultures of the Oikumene but was about to overtake them.”
― Karen Armstrong, quote from A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
“Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya'" - Digger”
― Kathryn Lasky, quote from The Capture
“Yol Bolsun" (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Walking Drum
“I smile. No plan can take everything into account. Other people will raise their heads, others will desert. Time will go on spreading victory and defeat among those who pursue the struggle.
I sip with satisfaction. We deserve the warmth of baths. May the days be aimless.
Do not advance the action according to a plan.”
― quote from Q
“Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"
The doctor said gently,
What I'm going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
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