“Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real bitch!”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“Claire, did I invite you to my barbeque?" Massie asked, her neck tilting to the right and her arms tightly crossed.
"Huh? No. I mean, I don't know," Claire said.
"Then why are you all up in my grill?" Massie said through her teeth.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“Sorry, No conprendo I don't speak Loser.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“These girls want nothing to do with last season's clothes.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“this morning
I told the flowers
what I'd do for you
and they blossomed”
― Rupi Kaur, quote from The Sun and Her Flowers
“Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“The mystical perception (which is only “mystical” if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux…have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh…”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from The Snow Leopard
“The difference between laughing your head off and shouting your head off is that with one you are happy and with the other you are angry.”
― Siobhan Dowd, quote from The London Eye Mystery
“It is said that here we practise free discipline. That's wrong, quite wrong. It would be more correct to say that we are seeking, as best we can, to establish disciplined freedom, that state in which the child feels free to work, play and express himself without fear of those whose job it is to direct and stimulate his efforts into constructive channels. As things are we cannot expect of them high academic effort, but we can take steps to ensure that their limited abilities are exploited to the full." Here he smiled briefly, as if amused by some fleeting, private reflection. "We encourage them to speak up for themselves, no matter what the circumstances or the occasion; this may probably take the form of rudeness at first but gradually, through the influences of the various committees and the student council, we hope they will learn directness without rudeness, and humility without sycophancy. We try to show them a real relationship between themselves and their work, in preparation for the day when they leave school.”
― E.R. Braithwaite, quote from To Sir, With Love
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