He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.
I think it was the institution…I was trying to master it.
When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he’s done something awful – he probably has.
It’s not objective. It’s subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It’s just what you think, not the truth.
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”–because he likes you anyways. He’ll tolerate your junk
One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
..we’ll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.
For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.
You have some balls.”Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment…
So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
My boyfriend is named Percocet,” I say. “We’re very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.
Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.
Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that’s not exactly right
suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right
The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.
If you don’t want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.
The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
Don’t worry,’ she told him. ‘I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.’- Frankie Landau-Banks
Secrets are more powerful when people know you’ve got them,” said Mr. Sutton. “You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.
In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
Always do what you’re afraid to do. …I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.
Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.
There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.