“Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that’s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn’t happen to me, I don’t want to think it happens to anyone else.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Summer in the City
“Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Summer in the City
“Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Summer in the City
“Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Summer in the City
“I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Summer in the City
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“She throws away the inedible toast and looks at me, her blue eyes sad. “I'm a bad cook.”
My first inclination is to say, “You're just realizing this now?”, but I don't. Instead I shrug. “You're good at a lot of other things.”
“I can't crochet either.”
I purse my lips to keep from agreeing. “Well...you—”
“And I can't sing. I don't even remember the shade of my natural hair color and I've had this outfit since the eighties.”
I glance at her red top and tan pants. Yeah. Those should really go—along with a lot of other things in the house. “You're sort of making it hard for me to make you feel better when you keep tossing all the things you aren't good at, at me.” I brighten. “You can dance! You're a great dancer.”
“I'm having a mid-life crisis.”
“You're forty-six,” I scoff. “You're too young for that. I mean, maybe in four years...”
― Lindy Zart, quote from Roomies
“You always make me get so fuckin’ emotional. I’d get my ass beat if anyone saw me the way I am with you.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“-É arrogância pensar que o Lolita é melhor do que um programa de televisão sobre animais de estimação? - insistiu ele.
-É arrogância pensarmos que somos melhores do que outra pessoa só porque essa pessoa não gosta da narrativa mais elegante do mundo sobre abuso sexual de crianças.”
― Adelle Waldman, quote from The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
“I'm a geeky badass, and I'm loving it.”
― Leah Rae Miller, quote from The Summer I Became a Nerd
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