“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
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“Plenty of time for a close friendship to turn to hate. As only a good friendship could. The conduit to the heart was already created.”
― Louise Penny, quote from The Beautiful Mystery
“For, confronted with morality (especially Christian, or unconditional, morality), life must continually and inevitably be in the wrong, because life is something essentially amoral--and eventually, crushed by the weight of contempt and the eternal No, life must then be felt to be unworthy of desire and altogether worthless.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner
“This sense of the brain’s remarkable plasticity, its capacity for the most striking adaptations, not least in the special (and often desperate) circumstances of neural or sensory mishap, has come to dominate my own perception of my patients and their lives. So much so, indeed, that I am sometimes moved to wonder whether it may not be necessary to redefine the very concepts of “health” and “disease,” to see these in terms of the ability of the organism to create a new organization and order, one that fits its special, altered disposition and needs, rather than in the terms of a rigidly defined “norm.”
― Oliver Sacks, quote from An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
“The pressure for the new cult of ethnicity came less from the minorities en masse than from their often self-appointed spokesmen, Most ethnics, white and non-white, saw themselves primarily as Americans. "The cravings for 'historical identity'", Gunnar Myrdal said at the height of the ethnic rage, "is not in any sense a people's movement. Those cravings have been raised by a few well-established intellectuals, professors, writers--mostly, I gather, of a third generation". Few of them, Myrdal thought, made much effort to talk to their own ethnic groups. This movement, Myrdal added with a certain contempt, was only "upper-class intellectual romanticism".”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., quote from The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
“You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
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