Anne Conway Quotes

I leaned up and, before I could change my mind, I kissed him, right on the lips. And then I turned and ran back through the front door. “Blimey, Bee!” he called out after me. But when I glanced back, he was leaning against the door frame, grinning.

but I found myself telling Lizzie everything. There was just something about her; the way she sat there taking in every word, her eyes never leaving my face for a moment, as if she understood exactly how I felt.

We had so much fun together,

She’s the sort of person who puts a brave face on even when she feels like crying.

But how are you supposed to miss someone you don’t even remember?

At least when he was alive he was really alive. I know it sounds weird, but sometimes, next to Luke, it feels as if I’m the one who died.

Lizzie,

True Love!

From now on, everything about our friendship has got to be dead secret.

He was making it sound as if I was strong and brave. He didn’t realize how frightened I was inside. How my ribbon was in my bag. How I’d found it stuffed down the back of my bed and still needed it just to get through the day. How I’d never really done anything brave in my whole entire life. His eyes never left my face. “If anyone can walk into that room, Maddie Wilkins – late, or early, or anything – it’s you.

Well, we are certainly experiencing a heyday for irrational discourse and 'alternate facts.' Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Devin Nunes, Ann Coulter, Dinexh D'Souza, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Rush Limbaugh, and the entire Republican congressional caucus inhabit a world in which down is up, up is down, and science is fake news. It is hard for some people to have faith in American institutions when they are being told every day that climate change is a hoax, that Obama is a Kenyan, that the United States government brought down the Twin Towers, that the grieving parents of murdered Sandy Hook kindergartners are "crisis actors," and that Hillary Clinton is splitting time cooking up uranium deals with the Russians and running a child-sex ring out of a pizzeria. Not to mention every word that tumbles from Donald Trump's lying mouth.