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
“We wouldn't really see anything at night, from this altitude, but it still felt good, like a layover in Paris. You never leave the airport, but even so, you're in Paris.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, quote from Sleeping Giants
“Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. “Perhaps the answer lies in the democratic character of this institution,” he said, setting himself to think his way through the matter. “Any ordinary man, on any day, can be raised to the lofty station of a guest. The path to that temporary deification is open to anybody at any time.[...] Given that anyone at all can grasp the sceptre of the guest,” he went on, “and since that sceptre, for every Albanian, surpasses even the king’s sceptre, may we not assume that in the Albanian’s life of danger and want, that to be a guest if only for four hours or twenty-four hours, is a kind of respite, a moment of oblivion, a truce, a reprieve, and—why not?—an escape from everyday life into some divine reality?”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from Broken April
“To see a thing one has to comprehend it. An armchair presupposes the human body, its joints and limbs; a pair of scissors, the act of cutting. What can be said of a lamp or a car? The savage cannot comprehend the missionary’s Bible; the passenger does not see the same rigging as the sailors. If we really saw the world, maybe we would understand it.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”
― Anne Fadiman, quote from Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Who’s that?” he exclaimed. “She’s the most beautiful cat I’ve ever seen! Why is she so sad? Oh, my whiskers, is she bleeding too? What on earth is wrong with your Twolegs? Why don’t they take better care of you?”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Secrets of the Clans
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