“He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."
Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“all my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will-”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“Why live if you can’t help others and make the world a better place?”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“People change two ways --- with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.” He”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear
“I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Turn Coat
“If I die now, at least my soul might see him in Paradise one day.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Intuition
“There’s still this thing that happens after you break up with
someone. It barely takes any time to work. All you have to do
is continue with your life, and then when you find yourself in a
room with her again it’s as if you’re a different person. Maybe
your posture is a little more confident. Maybe your laughter is
louder. You’re wearing perfume she’s never smelled before and
you have a new way of pinning back your hair. You don’t even
have to say anything because your presence alone is enough to
say Look at who I am without you.”
― Nina LaCour, quote from Everything Leads to You
“Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Twelfth Grade Kills
“Come now, Tichy. For half a century civilization hasn't been left to its own devices. A hundred years ago a certain Dior was dictating fashions in clothing. Today this sort of regulating has embraced all walks of life. If prostheticism is voted in, I assure you, in a couple of years everyone will consider the possession of a soft, hairy, sweating body to be shameful and indecent. A body needs washing, deodorizing, caring for, and even then it breaks down, while in a prostheticized society you can snap on the loveliest creations of modern engineering. What woman doesn't want to have silver iodide instead of eyes, telescoping breasts, angel's wings, iridescent legs, and feet that sing with every step?”
― Stanisław Lem, quote from The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
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