Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.
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Related A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. An... CASSANDRA CLARE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a minister... CASSANDRA CLARE I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse. CASSANDRA CLARE it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs. MARY BETH WHITEHEAD They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to... EMMA CLINE It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite ... CASSANDRA CLARE if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y... TESSA DARE I like being a Girl Scout. DEBBIE REYNOLDS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr... STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it ... CASSANDRA CLARE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must... CASSANDRA CLARE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. When the candles are out all women are fair PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate. JANE RULE She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way... EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives KATHARINE GRAHAM I am my own woman. EVITA PERóN Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. GLORIA STEINEM The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ... NEHA KOTHARI You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als... GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl... LORI GOTTLIEB I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies. CASSANDRA CLARE It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. CASSANDRA CLARE I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA Being a teenager is hard. MAE WHITMAN I enjoy being a girl. PALOMA FAITH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and l... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am below average! STEPHEN CHBOSKY but my dad said it was no excuse. "But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. STEPHEN CHBOSKY How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. ROB LOWE You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent huma... MALCOLM X To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA [Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him ... CASSANDRA CLARE If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a ... CASSANDRA CLARE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius. DAVEED DIGGS
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CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th... CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o... CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi... CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ... CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ... CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Fil... CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou... CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter... CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s... CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be. CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be. CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ... CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me... CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l... CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places. CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that... CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be... CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.” “I just wo... CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better. CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia... CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul... CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in res... CASSANDRA CLARE Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. CASSANDRA CLARE While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. CASSANDRA CLARE By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl... CASSANDRA CLARE It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to... CASSANDRA CLARE Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of cou... CASSANDRA CLARE A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'... CASSANDRA CLARE Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a... CASSANDRA CLARE Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki... CASSANDRA CLARE [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.” “Does he know that?” said Livvy. Julian sough... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu... CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of... CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said. “It was a little sexy,” Simon said. He felt much better, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al... CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. CASSANDRA CLARE