“Time is one thing you should pay attention to. One day, you'll find there's never enough of it.”
― Heather Davis, quote from The Clearing
“No boy ever makes you special. You just are. Understand?”
― Heather Davis, quote from The Clearing
“I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.”
― Heather Davis, quote from The Clearing
“Loving someone isn't dumb," Henry said. "I mean, I don't know a whole lot about love, but I don't think it's dumb if it's real.”
― Heather Davis, quote from The Clearing
“Go on to your sunny, bright future," Henry said in a quiet voice. "I won't be there.”
― Heather Davis, quote from The Clearing
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“That, paradoxically, narrowing her concerns had made her more capable of love and generosity and empathy and, yes, even peace and justice. It was the difference between loving something out of duty—because the movement required it of you—and loving something you actually loved. Love—real, genuine, unasked-for love—made room for more of itself, it turned out. Love, when freely given, duplicates and multiplies.”
― quote from The Nix
“God, I hate teenagers. – Detective Shepard.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, quote from A Study in Charlotte
“I took a step toward her. "It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right," I said. "It is my right to be unsociable and it is my right to be unpleasant to be around. Do you ever listen to yourself? This is crazy, that is crazy, everything is crazy to you. By whose measure? Well, it is my right to be crazy, as you love to say so much. I have no shame. I have felt many things in my life, but shame is not among them." The volume of my voice caused me to stand on my tiptoes. I could not remember yelling like this, ever. "You may think that I have an obligation to you but I assure you that us being thrown together in this arbitrary arrangement does not cohesion make. I have never had less of an obligation to anyone in my life, you aggressively ordinary woman.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, quote from Her Body and Other Parties
“If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind”
― Jamie O'Neill, quote from At Swim, Two Boys
“I want you to think. Gawd got his special purpose for you, just like He does for every one of us. He done give you a very good mind. The world you have when you grow up is gonna be the one you make. You use your mind and make it better.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, quote from Sullivan's Island
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