“It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."
Question: What's the probability they will kiss?”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Do you want this to be a love story?”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“I like you," he said.
He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important.
He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered.
'No.'
'How do you know?'
'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.'
'Serious?'
'Serious. That isn't a line.'
'Kiss me,' she said.
He did. Everywhere.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important - his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Parents don’t know their children at all.
No one knows anyone, in fact.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Funny how when life was that simple, you never really realized how lucky you were.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“We'll kill him on the green with a five iron.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Alchemy, Dex called it, which was something to do with magic if you were French.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“When he thought about her, he remembered her at the cottage, her eyes fiery, daring to love him. But standing here in front of him , she looked defeated and sad.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have to be here.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“Why do I feel like you're not on my side anymore? Please don't give up on me.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
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“What makes life in Indian organizations difficult is the widespread prevalence of this very contemptuous pride. It stops us from listening to our juniors, subordinates and people down the line. You cannot expect a person to deliver results if you humiliate him, nor can you expect him to be creative if you abuse him or despise him. The line between firmness and harshness, between strong leadership and bullying, between discipline and vindictiveness is very fine, but it has to be drawn.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, quote from Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Child of the Prophecy
“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”
― Carson McCullers, quote from The Member of the Wedding
“In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine, while the milky white jasmine will open their slender throats and sip the chill Himalayan air.
At night, low hearths will send up wispy curls of smoke fragrant with a dozen dinners, and darkness will clothe the land.
Except on nights when the moon is full. On those nights, the hillside and the valley below are bathed in a magical white light, the glow of the perpetual snows that blanket the mountaintops. On those nights I lie restless in the sleeping loft, wondering what the world is like beyond my mountain home.”
― Patricia McCormick, quote from Sold
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities. Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
What’s not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what’s thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Waste Land and Other Poems
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