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
“If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Frelseren
“By late August, I’m on my second sublet, and I’ve been working as a copywriter long enough to know I’m not good at it. I seem to be reliving the life I had when I was twenty-two, but I’m about to run twenty-eight, which feels like the opposite of twenty-two.”
― Melissa Bank, quote from The Wonder Spot
“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and turn your back on Christianity, do so because you find the answers of Jesus incredible, blasphemous, or hopelessly hopeful.”
― Brennan Manning, quote from The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
“Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.”
― Katie MacAlister, quote from A Girl's Guide to Vampires
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