Christina Quotes

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Laters, baby.
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E.L. James (Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1))
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Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. β€œYes,” says Will, looking puzzled. β€œDidn’t you?
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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One day in the country Is worth a month in town
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Christina Rossetti
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil onβ€”I like naked ladies naked.
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Christina Stead (Miss Herbert (the suburban wife) (A Harvest/HBJ book))
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Galileo Galilei (Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina)
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. β€œOh, you know,” I say. β€œSun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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The person you became with her is worth being.
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Veronica Roth (Allegiant (Divergent, #3))
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Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.
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Christina Westover
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No one is ever the villain of their own story.
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Cassandra Clare (Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1))
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Favorite word?” he whispers. I don’t even hesitate: β€œYou.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands
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Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry))
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Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. β€œLike you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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For some sick reason, fighting with this woman always ended with her panties in my pocket.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. β€œYou almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” β€œPansycake?” says Christina. β€œDauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. β€œSupposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” β€œBecause it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. β€œNo. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” β€œAnd a half,” he says.
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Veronica Roth (Insurgent (Divergent, #2))
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I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...
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Christina Westover (Precipice)
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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
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Christina Rossetti
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You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
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Christina Perri
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I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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If only he would keep his mouth shut, he'd be perfect. A piece of duct tape would do the trick. I had some in my desk that I'd occasionally pull out and fondle, hoping someday I could put it to good use.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Why can’t everyone be like you?” β€œI can be enough of your world that it feels like everyone is.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
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Christina Rossetti
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The roughest roads often lead to the top.
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Christina Aguilera
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Beauty is only skin-deep, and ugly goes straight to the bone.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny flashes of discomfort, the reactions we can’t hide.
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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Limerence.' There's no other word like it. The state of being infatuated with another person.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
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Christina Rossetti (Poems of Christina Rossetti)
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But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
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Veronica Roth (Insurgent (Divergent, #2))
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I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.
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Christina Baker Kline (Orphan Train)
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I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
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Christina Rossetti
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I am your instructor", he says."My name is Four". Christina asks, "Four? Like the number?" "Yes", Four says. "Is there a problem?" "No." "Good. We're about to go into the Pit, which you will someday learn to love. It-" Christina snickers. "The Pit? Clever name." Four walks up to Christina and leans his face close to hers. His eyes narrow, and for a second he just stares at her. "What's your name?" he asks quietly. "Christina", she squeaks. "Well, Christina, if I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction", he hisses. "The first lesson you will learn from me is to keep your mouth shut.Got that?
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?
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Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry))
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Well, you’re more, too. You’re my best everything.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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knew he was a book lover, but to be the same kind of book lover I am? It makes my insides melt.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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A God worthy of your eternal love wouldn’t judge you for who you love while you’re here.
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.
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Christina Dodd (A Well Pleasured Lady (Fairchild Family #1))
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When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress-tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.
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Christina Rossetti (The Complete Poems)
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Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Veronica Roth
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I didn't know," he whispered. "I didn't know I could love you so much.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Women don't always want to be treated like we're delicate, or rare, or somehow more precious. We want to be wanted. We want sex to be just as raw as you do.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Stranger (Beautiful Bastard, #2))
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Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.
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Christina Westover
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The look in her eyes told me that under any other circumstances, I would either already be naked with her on top of me, or lying in a pool of my own blood on the rug.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad
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Christina Rossetti (Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions))
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I am a homebody, through and through, and there’s nothing like being home.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
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Christina Baker Kline (Orphan Train)
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You broke up with her last night?” He nods … β€œYou’re the love of my life. I assumed I would get over you eventually, but seeing you yesterday?” He shakes his head. β€œI couldn’t go home to someone else and pretend to love her with everything I have.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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The way you seem nervous makes me think you don’t know that I’m in love with you.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Stranger (Beautiful Bastard, #2))
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Treat your body carefully. Take care of it. Don’t let anyone abuse it, and don’t abuse it yourself. Every inch of your skin I made diligently; months I slaved over you. You are my masterpiece.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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It never occurred to me that love could be anything other than all-consuming. Even as a child, I knew I never wanted anything less.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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But this is your life, and it will stretch out before you, and you are the only person who can make it whatever you want it to be.
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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Tell her you love her. Girls need the words.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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But at the end of the day", she says, and puts her hand outside the open window, letting the wind pass through her fingers, "being myself is enough. I'm enough.
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Christina Lauren (Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating)
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You sure you don't want me to bring you back something?" Her eyes moved in the direction of his office. "A hit man? Some holy water?
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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I like it when you ask me to come!” he called after me. β€œI can’t wait to come tonight, Ziggy! Should I come around eight? Or do you want me to come around ten? Maybe I’ll come both times?
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Player (Beautiful Bastard, #3))
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I don't want to walk out that door and lose what we found in this room.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Sometimes it feels like I think about you every minute," he whispered.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.
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Christina Dodd (Storm of Shadows (The Chosen Ones, #2))
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In truth, how much time do any of us really have?
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Lurlene McDaniel (Telling Christina Goodbye)
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I haven’t been home in years, but I feel that way with you.
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Christina Lauren (The Soulmate Equation)
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I want you to watch. And tomorrow when you're sore, I want you to remember who did it to you.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.
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Veronica Roth (Allegiant (Divergent, #3))
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You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.
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Christina Henry (Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1))
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I don’t actually care if you break my heart, Sebastian. I went into this knowing it could happen and I gave it to you anyway. But I don’t want you to break your own. You have so much space in your heart for your church, but does it have space for you?
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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Admissions make feelings intensify simply because they are given space to breathe. Admissions lead to love, and admitting love is like tying yourself to a train track.
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Christina Lauren (Love and Other Words)
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Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.
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Christina Rossetti
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I want to love all of my life as much as I love this night.
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Christina Lauren (Sweet Filthy Boy (Wild Seasons, #1))
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Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.
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Christina Baker Kline (Orphan Train)
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This flirting is all well and good, but I mean it when I tell you, I cant have you leaving me again. It almost broke me." My ribs seemed to squeeze all of the air out of my lungs at the thought. "I don't think I could. I don't want to be away from you again either." "But you need to give me a chance to fix things when I screw up. You know I'm an ass sometimes." "Sometimes?" Growling, he whispered, "And I tear lingerie." I pushed a curl off his forehead, "And hoard it. Don't forget the creepy hoarding.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Wait, you remember that?" "Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked like a fucking model. What man could ever forget that?" "I would have given anything to know what you were thinking right then." "I was thinking, 'Highly fuckable intern, twelve o'clock. Disengage, soldier. I repeat, disengage.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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It's so exhausting pretending to hate you.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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I was starting to see that this wasn't just sex, and it wasn't something just working out of my system. Sex was just the fastest route to the deeper possession that I needed. I was falling in love with her, and falling to fast and hard to easily find any footing.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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The world seems full of men who are initially infatuated by our eccentricities, but who ultimately expect them to be temporary.
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Christina Lauren (Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating)
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An eight-hour flight, and there’s no movie,” I say to myself, glaring at the screenless seat back in front of me. β€œMaybe they’re hoping your life flashing in front of your eyes will be distraction enough.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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Before I leave the bathroom, I pinch my cheeks hard to bring blood to the surface of my skin. It’s stupid, but I don’t want to look weak and exhausted in front of everyone. When I walk back into Tobias’s room, Uriah is sprawled across the bed facedown; Christina is holding the blue sculpture above Tobias’s desk, examining it; and Lynn is poised above Uriah with a pillow, a wicked grin creeping across her face. Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, β€œHey Tris!” and Uriah cries, β€œOw! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” β€œMy exceptional strength,” she says. β€œDid you get smacked, Tris? One of your cheeks is bright red.” I must not have pinched the other one hard enough. β€œNo, it’s just … my morning glow.
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Veronica Roth (Insurgent (Divergent, #2))
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Find a woman who will be your equal in every way. Don’t let yourself fall for someone who’ll put your world before theirs. Fall for the powerhouse who lives as fearlessly as you do. Find the woman who makes you want to be a better man.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bitch (Beautiful Bastard, #1.5))
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Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another. β€œSir, which one is Princess Christina?” Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too. β€œSir?” β€œThe blond-headed one,” Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth. β€œWhich blond-headed one?” Andrew persisted. β€œThe one eating the shrubs.
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Julie Garwood (The Lion's Lady (Crown's Spies, #1))
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Mr. Ryan was going to have my ass. I was twenty minutes late. As I experienced this morning, he hated late. "Late" was a word not found in the Bennett Ryan Dickhead Dictionary. Along with "heart," "kindness," "compassion," "lunch break," or "thank you.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.
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Christina Baker Kline (Orphan Train)
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When I say β€˜I love you’ I don’t mean that I love what being with you does for my career, or I love how often you’re willing to shag. I mean I love you. I love making you laugh, and seeing how you react to things, and getting to know the little things about you. I love who I am with you, and I’m trusting you not to hurt me.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Stranger (Beautiful Bastard, #2))
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Remember Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more, day by day, You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
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Christina Rossetti (The Complete Poems)
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I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care, I am me. My name is Valerie, I don't think I'll live much longer and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography ill ever write, and god, I'm writing it on toilet paper. I was born in Nottingham in 1985, I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tuttlebrook, and she use to tell me that god was in the rain. I passed my 11th lesson into girl's grammar; it was at school that I met my first girlfriend, her name was Sara. It was her wrists. They were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that is was an adolescent phase people outgrew. Sara did, I didn't. In 2002 I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn't have done it without Chris holding my hand. My father wouldn't look at me, he told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing. But I had only told them the truth, was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free. I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life, and in 2015 I starred in my first film, "The Salt Flats". It was the most important role of my life, not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed, I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again. We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew Scarlet Carsons for me in our window box, and our place always smelled of roses. Those were there best years of my life. But America's war grew worse, and worse. And eventually came to London. After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone. I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like collateral and rendition became frightening. While things like Norse Fire and The Articles of Allegiance became powerful, I remember how different became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I've never cried so hard in my life. It wasn't long till they came for me.It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years, I had roses, and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An Inch, it is small and it is fragile, but it is the only thing the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. -Valerie
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Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)
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So here were the facts: I felt possessive of her. Not in a romantic sort of way, but in a "hit her over the head, drag her off by the hair, and fuck her" way. Like she was my toy and I was keeping the other boys in the sandbox from playing with her. How sick was that? If she ever heard me admit to that, she would cut off my balls and feed them to me.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Ben,” Max said, leaning back in his chair with a giant grin. β€œIt’s finally happened.” I groaned, resting my head on my hand. β€œYou got your period?” Bennett asked. β€œCongratulations.” β€œNo, you twat,” Max said, laughing. β€œI’m talking about Will. He’s gone arse over tits for a girl.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Player (Beautiful Bastard, #3))
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It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself. What are you doing to nurture yourself? What are you doing to protect yourself? Find a healthy way to express your pain.
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Christina Enevoldsen
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You have very Grace Kelly-like tendencies about you. I hear Grace Kelly had a filthy mouth too," he added. "You love my filthy mouth." "True. But I like it better when its full," he said, meaningful smirk in place. "You know, if you would shut up once in a while you'd be damn near perfect." "But I'd be a silent panty ripper, which I think is a lot creepier than the angry-boss panty ripper.
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Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1))
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Love fails for a million reasons - distance, infidelity, pride, religion, money, illness. Why is this story any more worthy? It felt like it was. It felt important. Living in this town is suffocating in so many ways. But if a tree falls in the woods, maybe it makes no sound. And if a boy falls for the bishop's closeted son, maybe it makes no story.
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled by passion.A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age,fuckin cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes,they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special!
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Kurt Cobain
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If there's one thing I've learned over the years It's that it only takes one person...one moment to change your life forever. To change your perspective. Color your thinking. To force you to reevaluate everything you think you know. To make you ask yourself the toughest questions; Do you know who you are? Do you understand what has happened to you? Do you want to live this way?
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Christina Yang
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In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you, they feel remorse and they make amends. It’s safe to be honest. In an abusive system, vulnerability is dangerous. It’s considered a weakness, which acts as an invitation for more mistreatment. Abusive people feel a surge of power when they discover a weakness. They exploit it, using it to gain more power. Crying or complaining confirms that they’ve poked you in the right spot.
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Christina Enevoldsen (The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal)
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A Pause of Thought I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth But years must pass before a hope of youth Is resigned utterly. I watched and waited with a steadfast will: And though the object seemed to flee away That I so longed for, ever day by day I watched and waited still. Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more; My expectation wearies and shall cease; I will resign it now and be at peace: Yet never gave it o'er. Sometimes I said: It is an empty name I long for; to a name why should I give The peace of all the days I have to live?-- Yet gave it all the same. Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit For healthy joy and salutary pain: Thou knowest the chase useless, and again Turnest to follow it.
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Christina Rossetti (The Complete Poems)