“Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“I don’t know how he does it—how he makes me forget the clock and the pain. Sometimes, even if it’s just for a few seconds, I can forget how crap my life is.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“three is the worst hour. it's too dark, too bright, too late, too early. It's when the questions come, droning like flies, nudging me one by one until my mind's full of them”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes?”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Düşünüyorum da bir otobüse binersem ve yeterince uzağa gidersem, en sonunda dünyanın kenarından düşerim.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There are some things you can't change ... And there are some things you can”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“We humans screw up everything in the short time we've got”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“De golpe siento lo que es coraje. El coraje es permanecer quieto, aunque desees salir corriendo. El coraje es plantarte y darte la vuelta para encarar aquello que temes [...] Es abrir bien los ojos y aguantarle la mirada a ese miedo.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There's nothing mysterious about death or what comes after. There's just nothing.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps time eats away all relationships”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Yeah, there’s that, too, those razor-edged comments that come from nowhere like nunchuks.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
A.J. Betts
Born place: Bundaberg, Australia
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“Jonah McAllister regarded me with cold eyes. "Oh, yes. That's her. The lovely Ms.Gin Blanco. The bitch who was giving my boy a hard time.
A hard time? I supposed so, if you thought turning him in to the cops for attempted robbery, breaking a plate full of food in his face, and ultimately stabbing Jake McAllister to death was a hard time.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Venom
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete,or a scientist, or an independent business creator. in service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self. Becoming a parent is one of these basic human transformational deeds. By this act, we change our fundamental relationship with the universe- if nothing else, we lose our place as the pinnacle and end-point of evolution, and become a mere link. The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Cordelia's Honor
“Beth knew in that instant that she was not a true lady, and never would be. A true lady would have fallen out of her chair in a gentle swoon or screamed down the opera house. Instead, Beth leaned into Ian’s touch, liking it.”
― Jennifer Ashley, quote from The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
“Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.”
― Nicole Krauss, quote from Great House
“I would work with him to make Knight’s troubles go away. In the meantime, I could jump a hot guy whenever I felt like it.
This was not a bad deal.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
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