“Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“That's how inside jokes usually are. Funny to those inside, annoying as shit to the rest of the world.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“Principal Colby puts the tiara on Margo's head.
She's surprised by the weight.
Obviously the rhinestones wouldn't be diamonds, but Margo had always assumed the tiara would be metal.
It isn't.
It is plastic.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“It didn't matter if i was the kind of girl who had sex, or the kind of girl who had her portrait on on a wall in the library, or the kind of girl who who got into the best college, or the kind of girl who didn't tell her parents everything, or the kind of girl who teachers loved.
I just needed to be okay with all the kinds of girl I was.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“Maybe you haven't noticed, but everyone shares the same brain around here. It's like a mass cult. They've all drunk the Kool-Aid.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“All of her aunts said that Bridget looked exactly like her mother as a teenager. Staring at her, Bridget realised she had no memories of her mother being thin.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“It annoys her how easily Dana can forget the past.
But it also makes Margo jealous. Because she can't.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“They don't understand that it's hard to be her, to be shopping with them.
Like when Dana had pointed out a pair of jeans that Jennifer HAD to try, before darting into another section. Skinny girls can walk by a table full of pants, piled in high stacks, and peel a pair off the top. Easy. Effortless. But not girls like Jennifer.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“She pushes all the pain out of her arms, kicks the hurt free from her legs. She swims her broken heart out.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“No one was more stunned by the choice than her mother, who claimed to the saleswoman that she hadn't seen Danielle that dressed up since her first Communion.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“Remember at the junior picnic, when someone whipped that dog at Jennifer's head? And Jennifer was laughing, like it was funny? Ted never copped to it, but I know he did it. I saw him. A-hole.'
Rachel shakes her head in disgust. 'She probably deals with that kind of crap every day...'
'That's it. I'm going to ask Jennifer if she wants to sit with us today... I don't like those little turds thinking they can make fun of her because she's on the list. Don't they have any respect for the fact that she's a senior? If she's with us, they wouldn't dare say anything.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“And pretty on the outside is what really counts. Pretty on the outside is what everyone sees. One”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“She sank to the floor and tried rubbing away the burn. If anyone saw ther, they'd think she'd been crying.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“This last bit is proof. Proof that Milo doesn't really get her. He never did.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
“Bridget is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Two sides of herself, always arguing. She is tired of the fight, the constant struggle between a muddied version of good and evil, where right feels wrong and wrong feels really good.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
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― Siobhan Vivian, quote from The List
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“By looking at the behavior of the cells in our own body, we can observe the most extraordinary and efficient expression of The Seven Spiritual Laws. This is the genius of nature's intelligence. These are the thoughts of God - the rest are details.”
― Deepak Chopra, quote from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches.
There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see.
And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade.
They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone.
And I name this saying wisdom.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, quote from Blade of Tyshalle
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning.
The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry,
The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy
Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony
Of death and birth.”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from Four Quartets
“It is true that some people will lose their desire for life and refuse food and drink after the death of a beloved, or if there is too much pain and injury to the body. But a child, so recently come into the world from the void of creation, can be more resilient than the strongest man, more strong willed than the hardiest woman. A child is like an early spring bulb that carries all the resources needed within its skin for the first push through the soil towards the sun. And just a little bit of water can start the bulb to grow, even through fissured rock, so can a little kindness give a child the ability to push through the dark.”
― Kathleen Kent, quote from The Heretic's Daughter
“—Ser a la vez científico y religioso supone crear una tregua incómoda en la mente de un hombre —respondió Tobias—. El sentido de la ciencia es aceptar solamente la verdad que puede ser demostrada. El sentido de la fe es definir que la verdad, en su núcleo, es indemostrable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Legion
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