“So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“You have to be nicer to me," I said.
Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?"
"You have to be nicer to me or... or..."
"Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite.
"Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered
What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“Sometimes, with Cinnamon, it was like she fell into this "impress the guy" mode and forgot the primary rule of friendship, which was to make your bud look good in front of her boy. Not stupid.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“How many frogs would fit in lizard’s stomach?”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“eight-o-five, Lars still wasn’t here, and Ty had switched”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
“Don't give away what you have, but don't let what you have all you ever have.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Thirteen
Lauren Myracle
Born place: in Brevard, North Carolina, The United States
Born date May 15, 1969
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“Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
“صرت مقتنعاً أن الفتنة الشخصية لا الرصانة ولا النزاهة ولا حتى اللياقة هي أولى المواهب الاجتماعية، حتى أنني صرت اعجب بالاشخاص الغلظاء أو الرذلاء شرط أن يكونوا مثيرين للاهتمام .”
― Hanif Kureishi, quote from The Buddha of Suburbia
“She had crept away from his bed, leaving him asleep across the jumbled sheets. She'd closed the bathroom door softly behind her. Standing naked before the mirror, she'd stared at the girl she saw there. At the disheveled hair and smeared mascara and lips that he'd kissed. Slowly shaking her head at the image in the mirror, the thought played over and over in her mind like a scratched track on a CD: Why? Why did you do it? Why did you let it happen? Then she'd turned away, covered her face with her hands, and cried. She would never again be the same person. She'd been irreversibly changed.”
― Amy Efaw, quote from After
“You can learn a lot from letting other people talk, and just listening to what they have to say.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Size 12 Is Not Fat
“No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
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