“Accepting help is its own kind of strength”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“I’ve seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world better because they only see the worst in it.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“It is fine to be upset, but that won't get you anywhere. You gotta think about what you can learn from this. So far, looks like all you've learned is how to beat up on something that can't beat you back.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“She clung to him, song after song, staring into his eyes they way she used to stare into mine.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“You’re the only thing I’ve ever wanted to fight for.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“The ladies who came to the palace tended to be less aggressive physically. But their words could probably start wars if said in the wrong tone.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“What would I fight for in this world if I wasn’t fighting for her?”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“I stored up every moment like it was a physical thing. I'd thumb through memories whenever things were still. I spent more time with her than she ever knew.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“Ella se agarró a él, canción tras canción, mirándole fijamente a los ojos, como solía hacer antes conmigo. Así que quizá bebiera una copa de más mientras observaba la escena. Y tal vez aquel jarrón del vestíbulo se rompiera por mi culpa. Y puede que acabara mordiendo la almohada para silenciar mi llanto, para que Avery no me oyera.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“Let the world go to hell around you so long as you can get to her”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“I've seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world better because they only see the worst in it.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“The only way to get to the good is to walk through the bad.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“It felt like an eternity had passed since we'd kissed this deeply, but we fell into it so easily.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
“You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.”
― William Landay, quote from Defending Jacob
“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...”
― Patti Smith, quote from Just Kids
“I waited here while you talked to Sorcha, who, by the way, is crazy. Now you are off to the mortal world where the crazier one is? ... I was there, Devlin. Bananach could've killed you, and really? We've been bound together for like five minutes and you're suddenly darting off into danger without me. I don't think so.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Radiant Shadows
“...you'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are. We will let a selection from the writings of Chuang-tse illustrate: Hui-tse said to Chuang-tse, "I have a large tree which no carpenter can cut into lumber. Its branches and trunk are crooked and tough, covered with bumps and depressions. No builder would turn his head to look at it. Your teachings are the same - useless, without value. Therefore, no one pays attention to them."
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"You complain that your tree is not valuable as lumber. But you could make use of the shade it provides, rest under its sheltering branches, and stroll beneath it, admiring its character and appearance. Since it would not be endangered by an axe, what could threaten its existence? It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way.”
― Benjamin Hoff, quote from The Tao of Pooh
“No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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