“I’m used to holding on to nothing as tight as I can.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I’d break every rule for you.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us take you home.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I told him that when we first met... I felt like a butterfly trapped in a net. But... I told him that the more time I spent with him, the more I began to realize how much he means to me I told him that since it seems to be my destiny to dodge raindrops... I was grateful to be dodging them with him. So, I promised him that it would always be his name on my mind when I start my rotation... and when I go to bed each evening... and every quiet moment in between. It will be his name... savored on my lips... stretched across my heart... worshipped by my body... and branded in my mind... until death do us part... and forever after that.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“She's in your head, Trey."
"My head, my heart, my blood," Trey responds immediately.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I’m just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one’s actions don’t carry the same weight…painful or otherwise.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“We have to make the stars align for us now-- find a way for us now to get burned for being together." - Trey to Kricket”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I can't figure out what's wrong with her feet! -Nothing's wrong with my feet! -They are an alluring shade of pink. -Jax, that's nail polish!”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Don’t worry about me. I’ll be fine. I’m used to holding on to nothing as tight as I can.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“But…I told him that the more time that I spent with him, the more I began to realize how much he means to me. I told him that since it seems to be my destiny to dodge raindrops…I was grateful to be dodging them with him. So, I promised him that it would always be his name on my mind when I start my rotation…and when I go to bed each evening…and every quiet moment in between. It will be his name…savored on my lips…stretched across my heart…worshipped by my body…and branded in my mind…until death do us part…and forever after that.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“If I touch her, she’ll have my soul,” Trey replies.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I should love her like there is an ache that won't go away unless I'm with her.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“He was telling us that your voice will give comfort when the night becomes its blackest,” he replies. “And I’ll protect that voice with my body, my mind, and my spirit . . . because without it, I’m alone in the dark.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Trey, I thought that the Znou was beautiful and I wanted to keep it,” I say, explaining myself to him. “I wasn’t trying to kill myself. If I get suicidal, you’ll know ’cuz I’ll be dead. The only thing I’m feeling right now is homicidal, so watch your back.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“It’s when the crickets stop singing that you know the enemy is near and the battle is about to begin.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Then I could just let the common symmetry that exists between us force you to see that you’re mine . . .”—I kiss him—“and I’m lost without you . . .”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I prefer my justice to be blind.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Wayra, it's very nice to meet you. -Get off! -What's wrong? -He touched me. -So? -So, he's going to get hurt if he does it again!”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“No,” Trey says. “Males rarely touch each other.” “Really?” “And females rarely touch males they don’t know or who aren’t a part of their family,” he adds, making me feel awkward all of a sudden. I’ve been holding his hand all day, I think, feeling stupid.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I wouldn’t describe it like that. It was . . . hazardous and delicate. I’ve had easier times disarming explosives . . .”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Pulling his hand back from my face, Trey tenses. “Inamorata is feminine. I would be your inamorato, your male lover.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Cuz I look like Barbie.” I reply, knowing they can connect the dots. “Bad girls don’t like Barbie?” Michael asks, both his eyebrows rising. “No. Bad girls want to rip Barbie’s head off and flush it down the toilet,”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“It looks great on her because she has a bangin’ body.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Drunken people make me nervous. I dislike their predictable unpredictability—the emotions that are so intense and seem to turn on a dime.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“Can't someone please tell me what that little, lacy thing is that I keep catching a glimpse of when she bends down?" Wayra asks. "I don't know, but I have to say that I like it more than I should." Jax replies, sounding amused.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“I’m just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one’s actions don’t carry the same weight—painful or otherwise.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“My lips twitch at the mental image of him as a “queen.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
Amy A. Bartol
Born place: in The United States
Born date November 16, 2018
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“A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, well, that's when you know they really mean it.”
― quote from Sixteenth Summer
“In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.”
― Aidan Chambers, quote from Dying to Know You
“If you’re not pursuing a dangerous quest with your life, well, then, you don’t need a Guide. If you haven’t found yourself in the midst of a ferocious war, then you won’t need a seasoned Captain. If you’ve settled in your mind to live as though this is a fairly neutral world and you are simply trying to live your life as best you can, then you can probably get by with the Christianity of tips and techniques. Maybe. I’ll give you about a fifty-fifty chance. But if you intend to live in the Story that God is telling, and if you want the life he offers, then you are going to need more than a handful of principles, however noble they may be. There are too many twists and turns in the road ahead, too many ambushes waiting only God knows where, too much at stake. You cannot possibly prepare yourself for every situation. Narrow is the way, said Jesus. How shall we be sure to find it? We need God intimately, and we need him desperately.”
― John Eldredge, quote from Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
“My boobs are willing; the rest of me will come along. I’m not one hundred percent sold on you like they seem to be.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked
“Incidentally, I do not agree with you when you speak of Indian independence having become a foregone conclusion. Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist. Certain steps might be taken to help bring it into existence, others can be taken that will hinder it doing so. But independence alone is not the idea I pursue, nor the idea which the party I belong to tries to pursue, no doubt making many errors and misjudgements in the process. The idea, you know, isn’t simply to get rid of the British. It is to create a nation capable of getting rid of them and capable simultaneously of taking its place in the world as a nation, and we know that every internal division of our interests hinders the creation of such a nation. That is why we go on insisting that the Congress is an All India Congress. It is an All India Congress first, because you cannot detach from it the idea that it is right that it should be. Only second is it a political party, although one day that is what it must become. Meanwhile, Governor-ji, we try to do the job that your Government has always found it beneficial to leave undone, the job of unifying India, of making all Indians feel that they are, above all else, Indians. You think perhaps we do this to put up a strong front against the British. Partly only you would be right. Principally we do it for the sake of India when you are gone. And we are working mostly in the dark with only a small glimmer of light ahead, because we have never had that kind of India, we do not know what kind of India that will be. This is why I say we are looking for a country. I can look for it better in prison, I’m afraid, than from a seat on your Excellency’s executive council.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Day of the Scorpion
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