“You will never again be the person who had never tried tacos, because after you try one that person no longer exists. In a way he'll die, and someone new and more experienced will take his place." And”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“So I squeeze his hand, and it's really warm and hand-shaped, and we walk around the beach, and explore a little”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“If I open up, it gets me, Dad. It gets me, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to stand it.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“Life just gets better. Which is not to say that it's always easy.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“I am worthy. I am enough. Safe. Secure. Worthy. Enough.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“I am a whole, complete person, worthy just as I am.
And I am enough.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“Summary: Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission — find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her will be a help or a hindrance. ISBN”
― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Escaping Peril
“He made her want to believe in fairy tales and lies. In males who were decent and loving.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Defiance
“It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, quote from The Sympathizer
“Mind telling me what’s so funny?” he asked as he spooned beans onto their plates. “Nothing.” Lorelai avoided looking at Kol. “Then if nothing is funny, you two can stop grinning at each other like village idiots and start eating your dinner. I imagine tomorrow will be another difficult day.” And”
― C.J. Redwine, quote from The Shadow Queen
“Tides and the 2,000-Mile Man What causes the seas to rise and fall as if they were breathing two big breaths every day? It’s the Moon, of course, but how does it do it, and why twice a day? I will explain, but first let me tell you about the fall of the 2,000-Mile Man. Imagine the 2,000-Mile Man—a giant who measures 2,000 miles from the tip of his head to the bottoms of his feet—as he falls, feet-first, from outer space toward the Earth. Far out in outer space, gravity is weak—so weak that he feels nothing. But as he gets closer to the Earth, strange sensations arise in his long body—sensations not of falling but of being stretched. The problem is not the giant’s overall acceleration toward the Earth. The cause of his discomfort is that gravity is not uniform throughout space. Far from the Earth, it is almost entirely absent. But as he draws closer, the pull of gravity increases. For the 2,000-Mile Man, this presents difficulties even while he is in free fall. The poor man is so tall that the pull on his feet is much stronger than the pull on his head. The net effect is an uncomfortable feeling that his head and feet are being pulled in opposite directions. Perhaps he can avoid being stretched by falling in a horizontal position, legs and head at the”
― Leonard Susskind, quote from The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Queen of Shadows
The Corrections
Inferno
The Story of My Life
The Bluest Eye
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