“Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“You have to survive because I won't live in a world without you.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“When he pressed his lips to hers, she was not surprised. It happened the way the sun rose, the way a flower blossomed, the way fain fell from the sky, the way the dead stopped breathing. Naturally. Inevitably.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“I needed you to see me, finally. Every moment of your life, I have fallen more deeply in love with you.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“First kisses were about discovery, transformation, wonder.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“It is not our job to be happy, to be in love. We exist to make happiness and love possible for others.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Tossed By Waves,
She Does Not Sink.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Love. That which makes a life worth living. That which arrives to carry us where we need to go.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Stars grounded her. Their distance offered perspective when she couldn't see beyond her own pain”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“She liked the way this road smelled in the evenings, like rain falling on night-blooming jasmine. Locusts sang old songs in the darkness.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Brooks understood more than ever that she was the star of his life.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“… in the sea of love, where everyone would love to drown. But now it’s gone; they say it doesn’t matter anymore.…”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“NEVER HAVE I EVER … • lied at Confession, • made out with my friend’s sister, • blackmailed a teacher, • smoked a joint, • lost my virginity. The way they played it at Evangeline, people who had done what you had not done had to tell their story and pass you their drink to gulp. The purer your past, the faster you got drunk. It was a corruption of the innocent, a confession in reverse. No one knew how the tradition got started.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“The last thing we expect others to do is the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Love was a dance floor, where everyone you lost left a mark behind.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“The sight of his face made her want to run away and straight to him, to see how intense those blue eyes could get.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
“Her faith in you survives her,”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Teardrop
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“He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.
"Yes," I said.
"She did it for you, you know."
"What?"
"Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What an incredibly lucky kid you were."
I could not look at him. "I know."
He shook his head with a wistful sadness. "No, you don't. You can't know yet. Maybe someday..."
I knew he was tempted to say more. Probably to tell me how stupid I was, how cowardly, that I blew the best
chance I would ever have. But his smile returned, and his eyes were tender again, and nothing harsher
than cherry smoke came out of his mouth.”
― Jerry Spinelli, quote from Stargirl
“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight-Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck-tonight you could almost taste time.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Martian Chronicles
“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
― Lao Tzu, quote from Tao Te Ching
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Slavery was a long-established practice among African tribes. Any raiding party that successfully attacked a neighbour would expect to return with slaves. But what made the Portuguese demand for slaves different was its scale. The simultaneous discovery of the Americas by European explorers created an apparently limitless demand for labour to work on the plantations of the New World, and in Europe’s African toeholds slavery was turned overnight from a cottage industry into a major, global concern.”
― Tim Butcher, quote from Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
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