Jessica Sorensen · 313 pages
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“You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance. And I figured I'd give it to you one day when you realized it was okay to make mistakes.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“When it all comes down to it, it’s just me and her against the world. Always has been.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“See, the same old Ella still lives.” He grins… “She just needed a little push out.”…
“No, she doesn’t. She’s gone forever.”
“Try all you want, but I’m bringing her back,”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Stay here, baby … Trust me, okay? Don’t run.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I've been at the place where it seems like the only way left is down.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Please don't go. I just got you back”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“You think that just because you left, it would change how I feel? Well, guess what? You're wrong. I can't help how I feel. I'm still in-”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“You can push me away-run away-and I will still love you”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“And I don't want you to be anywhere but here”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Its's just that... this is the realest thing I've had in a long time and it scares me a bit.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I look into his eyes, no longer afraid what's in them, but afriad I'll lose what they carry.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“He knows what I'm about to say--he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“You're crazy if you think that you can run off and change your identity. This unfeeling, preppy girl thing you got going on," he motions his hand at my tank top, white frilly skirt, and curly hair, "is nothing but bull shit. You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I brush her hair back from her forehead. "You need to stop worrying about everything that can't be controlled." She signs and leans away from my hand, "That's just it, though. It's all I can think about anymore. It's like this fixation I have no control over which makes no sense because Im fixated on controlling the uncontrollable." She's breathing wildly. Shit. I need to calm her down.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Stay here, baby" he whispers, like he can read my thoughts. "Trust me, okay? Don't run”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it."
"Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Come with me somewhere. Please. I've been waiting eight months to talk to you”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you." A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“Actually I'm taking her for a ride," I say slyly, inching my hand up the back of Ella's leg and she slaps the back of my head playfully. "I'm taking you for a ride in my car. And you think I'm the pervert.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“It isn't as important to feel great about all the things that we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I see it in your beautiful eyes, like a spot on the sun. The things you want to hide, buried deep inside you. Blinded by your light. It almost hurts to look at, almost hurts to breathe. Never can you look at the things no one ever sees Shaded by your light. Please take me inside you, please take me in. Never will I whisper, never will I give in. Even when I’m dying, your heart will always win. Shielded to the sightless, isolated from the naïve. Breaking you in pieces, that can only ever grieve. Veiled by your light. Passionate for the world, yet overlooked by most. Your soul flickers in you, desperate to shine for the world But blinded by your darkness. Please take me inside you, please take me in. Never will I whisper, never will I give in. Even when I’m dying, your heart will always win.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“It was one of the things that made me fall in love with her; the fire, passion, and the need to stick up for the outcasts, even if it meant being an outcast herself.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“I’ve been a bit worried about my maleness lately, somewhere along the line I seem to have picked up too many female hormones.”
― Sue Townsend, quote from True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
“At the outset of his career circumstances seemed to authorize the most sanguine of these expectations. For at twenty-seven, after two years of advanced theology and philosophy, young Father Grandier received his reward for so many long semesters of diligence and good behavior. By the Company of Jesus, in whose gift it lay, he was presented to the important living of Saint-Pierre du Marché at Loudun. At the same time, and thanks to the same benefactors, he was made a canon of the collegial church of the Holy Cross. His foot was on the ladder; all he now had to do was to climb. Loudun, as its new parson rode slowly toward his destination, revealed itself as a little city on a hill, dominated by two tall towers—the spire of St. Peter’s and the medieval keep of the great castle. As a symbol, as a sociological hieroglyph, Loudun’s skyline was somewhat out of date. That spire still threw its Gothic shadow across the town; but a good part of the townspeople”
― Aldous Huxley, quote from The Devils of Loudun
“See, boys?” Moundshroud’s face flickered with the fire. “The days of the Long Cold are done. Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave.” “But?” said Tom. “What’s that got to do with Halloween?” “Do? Why, blast my bones, everything. When you and your friends die every day, there’s no time to think of Death, is there? Only time to run. But when you stop running at long last—” He touched the walls. The apemen froze in mid-flight. “—now you have time to think of where you came from, where you’re going. And fire lights the way, boys. Fire and lightning. Morning stars to gaze at. Fire in your own cave to protect you. Only by night fires was the caveman, beastman, able at last to turn his thoughts on a spit and baste them with wonder. The sun died in the sky. Winter came on like a great white beast shaking its fur, burying him. Would spring ever come back to the world? Would the sun be reborn next year or stay murdered? Egyptians asked it. Cavemen asked it a million years before. Will the sun rise tomorrow morning?” “And that’s how Halloween began?” “With such long thoughts at night, boys. And always at the center of it, fire. The sun. The sun dying down the cold sky forever. How that must have scared early man, eh? That was the Big Death. If the sun went away forever, then what?”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Halloween Tree
“Kansas City, that’s like in Kansas, right?” I ask. “Missouri,” Frank and Dad both correct.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“James had thought he wanted a friend like himself, a parabatai who was shy and quiet and would enter in on James’s feelings about the terror of parties. Instead here was Matthew, who was the life and soul of every party, who made dreadful hairbrush decisions, who was unexpectedly and terribly kind. Who had tried to be his friend and kept trying, even though James did not know what trying to be a friend looked like. Who could see James, even when he was a shadow. “Yes,”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Nothing but Shadows
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