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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury
Page 151: "...It'll come when we need it. All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there."
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys, By Kate Brian
Page 230: “I got a girl who knows who she is and is really good at being that person.”
Page 234: “…it all made sense at the time, you know?” “Well, everybody makes mistakes, I guess.” “There was just no reason for everyone to be so miserable.”
Page 257: “But apparently life didn’t imitate movies.”
Sunday, April 29, 2012
This Lullaby, By Sarah Dessen
Page 23: “I kept my closet the way I kept everything: neat and tidy.” “…Okay, so maybe I was a little obsessive. But so what? At least I wasn’t a slob.”
Page 27: “Okay, so maybe I did have a bit of history with expecting too much from relationships.
But gosh, at least I had standards…”
Page 36: “The stupidest part was that I let him, flushed as I was with love (not likely) or lust (more likely)…”
Page 82: “But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn’t succeed. That’s what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn’t do it.”
Page 101: “When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.” “Nice girls didn’t do what I did. Nice girls waited. But even before it happened, I’d never counted myself as a nice girl.”
Page 117: “Because I didn’t show weakness: I didn’t depend on anyone.”
Page 142: “It was so hard to explain, but it gave me a chill, every time, almost like he was touching my heart.”
Page 188: “I must say, it’s your confidence that really did me in. You know, so many girls are always insecure, wondering if they’re fat, or if you really like them, but not you.”
Page 264: “And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”
Page 316: “That strong sense of what we shared, good and bad, that led us to here, where my own story began.”
Page 320: “She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”
Keeping the Moon, By Sarah Dessen
Page 117: “‘A day for solitude and quite: you have a lot to think about. Recycling, renewal, big things to come are on your mind.’”
Page 160: “Believe in yourself up here (in the brain) and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”
Page 171: “I’ve always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that’s okay. I know I work in my own way.”
Page 202: “Let it go.” “And just like that, I did.”
Page 209: “I don’t believe in failure…Because simply by saying you’ve failed, you’ve admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.”
Page 217: “…What you were that night at the beach was just you, Colie. It was all you. Because for once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.” “…It’s like the hidden secret that no one tells you. We can all be beautiful girls, Colie. It’s so easy.”
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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