“We rarely find a depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. Depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us. Everyone, everything, has a story, Gia. When you learn those stories, you learn experiences that fill you up, that expand your understanding. You add layers to your soul.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Well, if you're a mess then I'm a natural disaster."
"The cutest natural disaster I've ever seen.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Hayden?"
"Yes,Gia?"
"Nothing I just wanted to say your name”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I like it when you're not perfect.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“You know what we’ve succeeded in doing with this game?”
“What’s that?”
“Increasing the anticipation.”
He laughed. “I know, right? Can I just be fill-in Bradley forever?”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“How is selfworth measured today? By the amount of likes a post gets, by how many friends we collect, by how many retweets we accumulate? Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Should we play Twenty Questions?"
"How would that work in this situation?"
"I could try to guess your preferences."
"My preferences in a kiss?"
I nodded, our faces still very close together.
"My preference is simple—you.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Stop worrying about someone else's feelings for once and worry about your grade.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I can pay you."
He raised his eyebrows. "I'm sure there are services for that.Maybe you can try calling 1-800-HOOKERS or something?"
"You know the number well?”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I threw the baseball I held after all. Not hard and it didn’t even hit him but it almost did.
His eyes went wide with surprise.
“So you weren’t really offering me a target?”
He gave a small laugh. “I didn’t think you’d take me up on it.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“The Odd Couple. Is this that one where the one guy is a mess and the other is a neat freak?”
“Yes, it is.”
“And you are?”
“A mess.” Then he looked at the book in my hands. “Oh, you mean in the play? I’m the neat freak. Felix.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I never wanted anyone to have this much power over my emotions again. It was safer to keep to myself, to keep things on the surface. Things ended better that way.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I never get mad when people hear my name wrong because I think to myself, Maybe they have hearing issues, excess earwax or something.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Mocking someone else to make us seem deep or intelligent only proves the exact opposite.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I wanted him to like me because as much as I'd tried, I could no longer deny the fact that I liked him.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“He looked at the cash siting there "What's that for?" I made myself smile "A good time.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I've been thinking", Jules said
Never a good thing I thought”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“The seen, the known, dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I don’t know. I love my friends, but yes, I’m discovering that they don’t know me very well. It’s not their fault, though. I’ve never let them. I’ve never really known myself.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I was humiliated for the girl with the social media addiction. The girl addicted to the validation of strangers. She didn't even know what she thought until someone told her what to think. She didn't even know who she was.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Isn’t that part of being a teenager? Discovering who we are? Who we want to be?”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Unlike Bec and I, Hayden didn’t yell anything angry, but the speed at which his ball hit the glass made me think that maybe he did have a few demons.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I hope so because otherwise I’m really far behind.” “I think you know yourself better than you think.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“we rarely find the depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“I like weird. Normal is so boring.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“The city was shredding them block by block. No place was safe. The air was alive with hurtling chunks of hot metal. They heard the awful slap of bullets into flesh and heard the screams and saw the insides of men's bodies spill out and watched the gray blank parlor rise in the faces of their friends, and the best of the men fought back despair. They were America's elite fighters and the were going to die here, outnumbered by this determined rabble. Their future was setting with this sun on this day and in this place.”
― Mark Bowden, quote from Black Hawk Down
“A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”
― Katherine Howe, quote from The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
“Every one, as you ought to know, has a beast-self—and a bird-self, and a stupid fish-self, ay, and a creeping serpent-self too—which it takes a deal of crushing to kill! In truth he has also a tree-self and a crystal-self, and I don’t know how many selves more—all to get into harmony. You can tell what sort a man is by his creature that comes oftenest to the front.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Lilith
“you desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
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