Cecily von Ziegesar · 240 pages
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“I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from You Know You Love Me
“Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from You Know You Love Me
“Nobody can make me smile like the way you do.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from You Know You Love Me
“But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from You Know You Love Me
“She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love?”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from You Know You Love Me
“Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his
talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who
attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of
you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.”
― Mikhail Naimy, quote from The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
“You know what I mean,” answered”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic
“What is a country for someone who is neither a soldier nor a rabid patriot? A place of subtle affinities, an implicit understanding between the land and the foot that treads it. A familiarity, an agreement, a secret sharing with the colours and smells of it. The impression that the wind is with us and is sometimes carrying us. A renunciation that does not imply acceptance of the idiocy and inhumanity that the country nurtures.”
― Gil Courtemanche, quote from A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
“Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad”
― David Lodge, quote from Small World
“We have become victims of our own art. We touch people on the outsides of their bodies, and they us, but we cannot get to their insides and cannot reveal our insides to them. This is one of the great tragedies of our interiority-it is utterly personal and unrevealable. Often we want to say something unusually intimate to a spouse, a parent, a friend, communicate something of how we are really feeling about a sunset, who we really feel we are-only to fall strangely and miserably flat. Once in a great while we succeed, sometimes more with one person, less or never with others. But the occasional break-through only proves the rule. You reach out with a disclosure, fail, and fall back bitterly into yourself.”
― Ernest Becker, quote from The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
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