“He said if I was good enough to throw a perfect game, I’d be good enough to date his daughter.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“Pressure is just that—pressure. It’s all in your head. It has nothing to do with what you can or can’t do.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“You should really relax your shoulders more. You look better with a neck.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“Kansas City, that’s like in Kansas, right?” I ask. “Missouri,” Frank and Dad both correct.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“If you love someone, even the best one-night stand isn’t going to erase that.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“I think you're a good person," I say quietly, before slipping the bed to retrieve my clothes. He exhales, and his eyes meet mine.
"All I know is that I want to be the person you and your dad think I am. Maybe even more than I want to be a great pitcher.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“Lenny London: In case you're wondering, running is like driving only there's more sweating and less sitting. I don't recommend trying it if you haven't already.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
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“I thought about how in movies, usually action movies, a cheap way of getting the audience to invest in the plot is to endanger the life of a dog. There can be fifty men graphically terminated by machine-gun fire or an entire building full of workers destroyed, but no one will stand for a cute little dog being killed. And almost always, the dog's life is spared to the relief of the audience.”
― quote from Torture the Artist. Joey Goebel
“.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them”
― David Eagleman, quote from Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
“...she, Mrs. Ph(i)Nk₀, she who in the midst of our closed petty world had been capable of a generous impulse, 'Boys, the tagliatelle I would make for you!', a true outburst of general love, initiating at the same moment the concept of space and, properly speaking, space itself, and time, and universal gravitation, and the gravitating universe, making possible billions and billions of suns, and of planets, and fields of wheat, and Mrs. Ph(i)Nk₀s scattered through the continents of the planets, kneading with floury, oil-shiny, generous arms, and she lost at that very moment, and we, mourning her loss.”
― Italo Calvino, quote from The Complete Cosmicomics
“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
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