“nothing can wear you out like caring about people”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“The difference is that was then, this is now.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
S.E. Hinton
Born place: in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States
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“Okay, so this had all the makings of a cluster fuck, but there was a Dairy Queen Oreo Cheese-Quake Blizzard waiting for me somewhere.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Lean Mean Thirteen
“Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Falls
“Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said.
By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity”
― Victoria Hanley, quote from The Seer and the Sword
“Eve held his eyes and confidently licked the length of the razor-sharp blade with the tip of her tongue. Red blood beaded up on her tongue, and she licked her lips, giving them a fresh coat of color. Eve used the knife to blow a kiss in Beckett’s direction and disappeared into the crowd. Beckett forgot to keep dancing. He stood stock still with Kyle still twirling around him.
Eve had just f*cked his mind so hard, he wanted to smoke a cigarette and cuddle like some soap-watching woman.”
― Debra Anastasia, quote from Poughkeepsie
“I've been stung by bees before, but it's never been this bad. It's like having PMS bloat throughout my whole body instead of just my midsection.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Revived
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