“The Marines may have made me a man, but Grace made me human.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“It’s easier to have a relationship with someone who isn’t there than someone who is.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“Trust me to know my own feelings. Don't assume you know what's best for me.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“Lana was good for my ego. She was good for everything. Too bad I was straight. And then there was the whole 'cousin' thing”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“Unhealthy realities can be constructed out of imaginary occurrences as a coping strategy disguised as wish fulfillment,”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“She might protest that we were just friends, but I was starting to think she liked my show of possessiveness. I’d try to keep to only small doses until I built up her tolerance for me.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“I’m not getting married. I plan to live a life of bachelorette-hood. I’ll be eccentric, have nine cats, and wear blue eye shadow and fur in the summer,”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“there was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“Sometimes it was hard to know where you stood with Lana. She was too busy protecting herself. If you weren't persistent, she never let you in.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“I'm the same way," Lana admitted. "I keep picking guys who are bad bets because they do what I expect them to screw me over. That way, It's never my fault when the relationship fails.”
― Jen Frederick, quote from Undeclared
“Better to stop one paddle short than one too far.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from A Lancaster County Christmas
“Leaders who continually invest large amounts of time into people who refuse to do God’s will are investing their time unwisely. On”
― Henry T. Blackaby, quote from Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda
“O halde cesaretimi ve çalışkanlığımı kanıtlayıp övgünüze mazhar olduğuma göre, şimdi sağduyumu kanıtlamama ne dersiniz? Ama haklı olarak ateşle su bir arada durmaz diyebilirsiniz. Gerçekten bu konuda da başarılı olacağıma inanıyorum, siz yeter ki daha önce yaptığınız gibi bana kulak verin ve dikkatinizi eksik etmeyin. Her şeyden önce, sağduyu deneyimle gelişiyorsa, sağduyulu unvanını en çok kim hak ediyor acaba, kah utangaçlığından kah korkaklığından hiçbir şeye girişemeyen bilge mi, yoksa utangaçlık nedir bilmeyen ve tehlike denen şey üzerine hiç kafa yormadığından hiçbir şeyden korkup çekinmeyen deli mi? Bilge, Eskilerin kitaplarına sığınır, buralardan eskilerin söylediği salt ayrıntıları öğrenir. Ama deli hiç düşünmeden tehlikelerin üstüne atılarak, yanıldığımı hiç sanmıyorum, gerçek sağduyuyu edinir. Bana öyle geliyor ki, kör olmasına rağmen Homeros, deli bile yaşadıklarından sonra bilge kesilir derken bu gerçeği görmüştü. Çünkü olayları yaşayarak öğrenmenin önünde iki büyük engel vardır, ilke zihne bir sis perdesi çeken utanç; ikincisi, tehlikeli olduğu açıkça görünen olayların üstüne gitmekten alıkoyan korku. Delilik bizi bu engellerden muhteşem şekilde kurtarır.”
― Erasmus, quote from Praise of Folly
“Family isn’t blood—it’s who has your back.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Seven Years
“I fart, you fart, he farts, she farts.
Let’s not deny it, people. Farting is a regular, healthy, and hilarious part of life. Squeezing out big plumes of noxious gas doesn’t always smell good, but it generally feels might fine.”
― Neil Pasricha, quote from The Book of (Even More) Awesome
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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