“The wheel may be turning, but the hamster is DEAD!”
“And, dear God? Thank you for creating Daniel in all his sweet-ass hotness. That’s probably sacrilege, but I mean it most sincerely. Amen.”
“You know what I love about you? You can go from cussing sailor to poet laureate in three seconds without batting an eyelash. It's quite impressive.”
“I wish you and I weren’t so grossed out by each other. We could’ve been great.”
“I thought I had the ability to mind-fuck people, but today I’d met my match.”
“A reader who’s been prepared to make enormous sacrifices to secure someone’s love would not find his actions incomprehensible,”
“I may have lost the academic plot, but my girly bits were definitely taking notes.”
“love that can be calculated or quantified is meaningless or lacking true value,”
“I love how we can always pick up where we left off,”
“Nobody uses “whom” properly. How the hell was he able to do it when he was half wasted?”
“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
“According to Julie, some men were wholly incapable of coping with smart women.”
“The poster child for decorum was actually being sexually suggestive.”
“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
“Thank you, Miss Harper, for taking us straight to the gutter,”
“Yeah, I was totally missing the boat on this one. How I wished I wanted Matt sometimes. Life would be so much easier.”
“Oh my God,” I said in a hushed voice. You have to speak quietly when you’re in that kind of room.”
“For some must watch, while some must sleep: Thus runs the world away.”
“So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.”
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”
“though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t.”
“Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:”
“The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon,”
“Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;”
“I have seen a medicine That’s able to breathe life into a stone…”
“These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”
“It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.”
“Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”
“Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
“I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.”
“If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.”
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