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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Ordinary People, By Judith Guest





















Page 1: "To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. a belief of some kind."

Page 3: "Keep moving, keep busy, everything will fall into place."

Page 13: "Growing up is serious business."

Page 15: "Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced."

Page 23: "...there is only one way to do everything(,) only one main street." 

Page 30: "...are we going to live like this? With it always hanging over our heads?"

Page 31: "Too much thinking can ruin you."

Page 34: "It has to be his fault, because fault equals responsibility equals control equals eventual understanding. How things happened. Why they happened." "...was nobody's fault...That is the truth. That is what makes it all so impossible to understand."

Page 43: "That's a problem. So, how do we solve it?"

Page 55: "...the only one who can help you is you." "You can't live with all that emotion floating around, looking for a place to land. It's too exhausting. It takes so much energy, just to get through a day..."

Page 79: "Sometimes,...people say stupid things." "A good, healthy problem needs a good, healthy solution."

Page 84: "...you cannot fire up, cannot manufacture desire, when there is no spark at all to build on."

Page 85: "Everything seems excessive now, and too intense, too important." "...learn to relax, don't think so much, just be."

Page 87: "The things which hurt don't always instruct. Sometimes they merely hurt."

Page 88: "He has forgotten how easy she is to talk to, how genuine."

Page 89: "...lack of meaning in such perfection."

Page 90: "...it is chance and not perfection that rules the world."

Page 93: "...things change; people change."

Page 98: "People have a right to be the way they are."

Page 100: "...you got any idea how much energy it takes to hold the door closed like you do?" "Sometimes...when you let yourself feel, all you feel is lousy." "Maybe you gotta feel lousy sometime, in order to feel better. A little advice,..., about feeling. Don't think too much about it."

Page 118: "...this problem is very specific. It is not necessary to pull the whole world in on top of you."

Page 119: "Tough to be sure if you haven't tried."

Page 120: "...you keep asking the same old questions, but you only listen for the one answer."

Page 121: "People don't change on command from other people."

Page 131: "His whole life is in place and it spreads out around him, steady and full of purpose." "He wants to go off in every direction at the same time."

Page 138: "That box,... I feel like I've been in it forever. Everybody looking in, to see how you're doing. Even when they're on your side, they're still looking in. Like, nobody can get in there with you."

**TO BE CONTINUED**

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Bloom, By Elizabeth Scott


Page 3: "I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be."

Page 9: "He told me that he really wanted to live right, and that it was hard, but he thought it was worth it."

Page 62: "...but that's not how life works. There are some things that can't be fixed."

Page 91: " 'I'm fine.' she says, and the way she says it chills me because i know all to well what it can mean. What it actually does mean."

Page 113: "I was just so freaked out that I thought I'd use up every single bit of worry last night, when I didn't fall asleep till after three."

Page 136: "It's just you have to--I don't know. Let go of being scared or something. Just be who you are."

Page 173: "I think what really matters is what you [I] think."

Page 181: "I am not strong or brave or anything like I should be. I am just me."

Page 199: "You'd think something would be different but nothing ever is. Everyone has their own little groups, and everything is all about who's doing what and who they're...with,... it all seems so pointless." "...part of a group but not part of it at all."

Page 218: "But now you're more--I don't know. More here. More like who you are."

Page 219: "I was worrying myself. I was afraid to be me."

Page 220: "I'm not perfect,... Not even close. Nobody is. If we were really in love with each other things wouldn't be perfect. They couldn't because nothing real is perfect."
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