“High heels, I'm convinced, are a creation of the Void and intended only to torture my poor unfortunate soles.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Sometimes there is no solution. Sometimes there's simply an end.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Because true beauty comes from within, from the person you are.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Sometimes the quickest solution ends in the most treacherous outcome.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward, this way and that. But perspective is an illusion, for we know all things begin somewhere.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“need to read my Advantages Response Card at least twice a day if I want to resist temptation. It’ll take only a few seconds. It’s not a big deal. I might not need it psychologically today, but I’ll need it soon. I have to cement these reasons in my mind for when the going gets tough.”
― Judith S. Beck, quote from The Beck Diet Solution
“...he said almost nothing, and ground his teeth against his desire to tell them the truth: God is helpless. We are at the mercy of our own radical freedom, and all God can do is take into God's self the grief, the violence, the sublime acts of kindness, the good sex. God comes to us from the future, and has only one godlike gift: the lure. We are lured toward truth, beauty, and goodness...the lure is pulling at our hearts like some lucid joy inside every actual occasion and all we have to do is...Say yes.”
― Haven Kimmel, quote from The Solace of Leaving Early
“Jag försökte lära honom det enkla knepet att tänka på döden när man stötte på brudar. Det har hjälp mig själv många gånger genom åren och är förvånansvärt effektivt. Jag kommer alltså att dö om några futtiga årtionden. Min lekamen ska utplånas för tid och evighet. Samma sak kommer att hände med tjejen, vi ska alla stampas ut och försvinna. Om tusen år är våra liv, alla våra ljuvaste drömmar och värsta rädslor upplösta i jord och aska. Vad spelar det då för roll om hon nobbar eller är snorkig och skrattar en rakt i ansiktet? Tack vare denna krassa inställning har jag emellanåt uträttat märkliga ting på kärlekens område, vågat stöta på livsfarligt vackra kvinnor till exempel, och ibland också faktiskt fått leka med dem.
Det här var det enda rådet som Niila verkligen lyssnade på. Han började tänka på döden oftare än på tjejer. Grabben blev kort sagt riktigt outhärdlig.”
― Mikael Niemi, quote from Popular Music from Vittula
“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”
― Greg Mortenson, quote from Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
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