Juno Quotes

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Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that." Percy: "Detention?
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Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2))
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He is the cheese to my macaroni.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again β€”my power. For weeks Iβ€˜ve grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." ―So youβ€˜re like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. ―Or fertilizer.
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
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Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet)
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Just keep moving! we're almost there." "Almost where?" Juno chuckled. "All roads lead there child. You should know that." "Detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome.
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Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2))
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Juno MacGuff: Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
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William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
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You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..
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Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet)
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Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno MacGuff: "Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.
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James Joyce (Ulysses)
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Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took off all her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, "Blaaaaah! I'm a kraken from the sea!" Su-Chin: That was you.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno MacGuff: [yelling through the house] Dad? Mac MacGuff: What? Juno MacGuff: Either I just peed my pants or um... Mac MacGuff: *Or*...? Juno MacGuff: THUNDERCATS ARE GO!
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong" Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.
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Rick Riordan
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Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream...
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Good night, Jessica Marie and Juno Merriam. Good night, River Nicolas.
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Christina Lauren (The Soulmate Equation)
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Jeez banana! Shut your freaking gob!
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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My heroes, our time together is short,” Juno said. β€œI am grateful that you called upon me. I have spent weeks in a state of pain and confusion...my Greek and Roman natures warring against each other. Worse, I’ve been forced to hide from Jupiter, who searches for me in his misguided wrath, believing that I caused this war with Gaea.” β€œGee,” Annabeth said, β€œwhy would he think that?
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Rick Riordan (The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5))
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Juno: Honest to blog?
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.
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Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet)
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I dare to dream of a world where people can dress, speak and behave how they want, free from mockery, derision, judgement, harassment and danger. This is what I want. Who’s with me?
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Juno Dawson (The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both)
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the figure of Juno, the brains of Minerva, the memory of Macaulay, the chastity of Diana, the grace of Terpsichore, but, above and beyond all, the hide of a rhinoceros.
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Madge Kendal (Dame Madge Kendal, By Herself)
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How stylishly broken we all are.
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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the patriarchy, above all else, fears women coming together, so internal female division only succeeds in greasing that machine.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1))
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It’s a life skill, finding the sweet spot between solitude and loneliness.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1))
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Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.” β€œGreat,” Percy said. β€œI always wanted to be glue.” Juno laced her crooked fingers.
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Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2))
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I shuffle through the pile of rings. β€œWe have Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, Bacchus, Juno, Mercury, Diana, Ceres … and we have a Minerva right here.” I frown and rummage around. β€œHmm. Odd. I can’t find a Pluto.” I look up at him. His eyes are different. Dead. Quiet. β€œOh, there’s one.
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Pierce Brown (Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1))
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I buried myself in the woods today. Covered myself in flowers and pretended to be dead." She raised her pen for a moment and thought, then went back to writing in cursive that could rival Sister's. "You should always wait for late spring to die, Juno," she says then. "The flowers are better".
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Karl Geary (Juno Loves Legs)
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Mum, you're freaking me out. You're not a witch. You shop at Next.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1))
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Both history and the past are fiction. Only the present is real.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1))
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You've got a choice. Peace or war? Life or death? Harmony or hate? I've never understood why that even needs discussion, it's so flippin' obvious!
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Juno Dawson (Doctor Who: The Good Doctor)
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Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
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Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)
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The novel cannot submit to authority.
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Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet)
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But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I’ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be - if I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!
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Virgil (The Aeneid)
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If we are not here for love, what are we here for?
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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This is a tale of arms and of a man. Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore. He met many tribulations on his way both by land on on the ocean; high Heaven willed it, for Juno was ruthless and could not forget her anger.
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Virgil (The Aeneid)
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A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a woman, with likes and dislikes: a jealous woman. The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names--Mars of the fields and the war, Vesta the fire, Ceres the grain, Mother Tellus the earth, the Penates of the storehouse. The rivers, the springs. And in the storm cloud and the light is the great power called the father god. But they aren't people. They don't love and hate, they aren't for or against. They accept the worship due them, which augments their power, through which we live.
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Ursula K. Le Guin (Lavinia)
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I'm dead inside so my eyes remain dry
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Juno Dawson (Stay Another Day)
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I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.
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Juno MacGuff
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Remember this, whoever you are, however you are, you are equally valid, equally justified and equally beautiful.
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Juno Dawson (The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both)
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (EROTICA ROMANA)
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I was no longer in the mood for hamburger phones and a whacked out girl named Juno.
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Alexandria Rhodes (More Than You Know)
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Arma virumque cano........." *Literally: "I sing of arms and man". __I sing the praises of a man's struggles__” Translation of the opening verses of the first book of VirgilΒ΄s Aeneid, by John Dryden( XVII century) "Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc\'d by fate, And haughty Juno\'s unrelenting hate, Expell\'d and exil\'d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin\'d town; His banish\'d gods restor\'d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome".
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Virgil (The Aeneid)
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Reasons aren't really things that make you do other things. Reasons are things that you make up, much later, to reassure everyone that we are all logical and that the world makes sense. We do unreasonable things, because we want to, at the time. No reason. Much later we sit in the wreckage, building reasons out of little bits of wreckage, so we'll have something to show the crash investigators. Look, this is what caused it. So the whole mess at least appears reasonable. So we can convince ourselves that at least there was a reason for the disaster, something we can prevent or avoid, so it'll never happen again. But a lot of the time there's no reason. We just flew it to the ground. Because we felt like it. And we're still dangerous. And it could happen again anytime. Its easier to live with each other afterwards if we give each other reasons.
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Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet)
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But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age: for it was now that she should be young; now above all other times, with the wisdom in her, the wisdom that was frittered away in her 'teens', set aside in her twenties, now, lying there, palpable and with forty summers gone. She clenched her hands together. What good was wisdom; what good was anything when the fawn is fled from the grove?
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Mervyn Peake (Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3))
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When you think of grandmothers, you imagine cuddly old ladies with mohair cardigans, tissues up their sleeves and an endless supply of Werther’s Originals.
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Juno Dawson (Margot & Me)
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I sometimes wonder if people are so wary of transgender progress because we highlight how something we often consider carved in stone can be so easily manipulated.
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Juno Dawson (The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both)
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Where we’re from, both the location and the environment we’ve stewed in, has a massive impact on the adults we become.
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Juno Dawson (The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both)
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I can't start the day without a cup of tea from my favourite mug, can you? I like Yorkshire Tea the best. What about you?
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Juno Dawson (Doctor Who: The Good Doctor)
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We don't really see much of London; we're too busy watching Londoners. And that's when I get it. All these people. We aren't broken. We're just alive.
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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Think we were both starting fires to see if any of them burned.
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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I don’t think I like how you control me at times.' Her smile grew and after grabbing my hand, she pulled me toward the water. 'I could say the same thing about you when we’re fucking, but I’d be lying.
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Seven Rue (When October Starts (Juno & Ezra, #1))
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Wherever there are people in trouble, wherever there's danger. Wherever there's cruelty or intolerance. Wherever there are mad kings and wicked tyrants, the Doctor and her friends will be there to help those who need her the most.
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Juno Dawson (Doctor Who: The Good Doctor)
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-Is anyone "blissfully happy" past the age of about ten? -Yes. Plenty of people. All the time, in fact.
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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Maybe that’s when you become a grown-up - when you stop feeling safe.
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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This ain't a Cinderella story. Never was. It's Little Red Riding Hood. A lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, and a lot of Big Bad Wolves.
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Juno Dawson (Meat Market)
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That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!
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Juno Dawson (What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary)
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You are never too young to learn that the whole world is largely run and designed for straight, white, cis men, or 'the patriarchy'.
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Juno Dawson (This Book Is Gay)
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No. KENT: Yes. KING LEAR: No, I say. KENT: I say, yea. KING LEAR: No, no, they would not. KENT: Yes, they have. KING LEAR: By Jupiter, I swear, no. KENT: By Juno, I swear, ay.
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William Shakespeare
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I'm sure I wasn't the only one who had like 15 Juno emails just to keep the free dial-up.
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stained hanes (94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat)
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My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood. After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance sold its first million, she said I needed a place to write, other than the local bus-shelter.
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Nuala NΓ­ ChonchΓΊir (The Juno Charm (Salmon Poetry))
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Behold Lucius I am come, thy weeping and prayers hath mooved mee to succour thee. I am she that is the naturall mother of all things, mistresse and governesse of all the Elements, the initiall progeny of worlds, chiefe of powers divine, Queene of heaven! the principall of the Gods celestiall, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the ayre, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be diposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customes and in many names, for the Phrygians call me the mother of the Gods: the Athenians, Minerva: the Cyprians, Venus: the Candians, Diana: the Sicilians Proserpina: the Eleusians, Ceres: some Juno, other Bellona, other Hecate: and principally the Aethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and the Aegyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustome to worship mee, doe call mee Queene Isis. Behold I am come to take pitty of thy fortune and tribulation, behold I am present to favour and ayd thee, leave off thy weeping and lamentation, put away all thy sorrow, for behold the healthfull day which is ordained by my providence, therefore be ready to attend to my commandement. This day which shall come after this night, is dedicated to my service, by an eternall religion, my Priests and Ministers doe accustome after the tempests of the Sea, be ceased, to offer in my name a new ship as a first fruit of my Navigation.
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Apuleius (The Golden Asse)
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Straightway [Juno] sought the filthy slimy shack Where Envy dwelt deep in a dreary dale, A gruesome sunless hovel, filled with frost, Heart-numbing frost, its stagnant air unstirred By any breeze, for ever lacking warmth Of cheerful fire, for ever wrapped in gloom. ... The door flew wide and there She saw foul Envy eating viper's flesh, Fit food for spite, and turned her eyes away. ... [Envy's] cheeks are sallow, her whole body shrunk, Her eyes askew and squinting; black decay Befouls her teeth, her bosom's green with bile, And venom coats her tongue. She never smiles Save when she relishes the sight of woe; Sleep never soothes her, night by night awake With worry, as she sees against her will Successes won and sickens at the sight. She wounds, is wounded, she herself her own torture,
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Ovid
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Leonie was on a roll now. β€˜From the second we’re born we’re made to feel insecure about our bodies, our choices, our lives. Then we hit puberty and all of a sudden we have to be both sexual and chaste at the same time, while our bodies are going fucking mental. We start leaking, for fuck’s sake. Then, after we’re covertly trained to conceal our excellence at school, we get to go work for men who don’t understand literally any of those dilemmas, and think they’re innately more skilled than us. They want you to be like men, but also not like men. It’s a fucking trap. We’re fucked as soon as the doctor says hun, it’s a girl.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1))
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The influence of Greek art and literature became so powerful in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods, and were considered to be the same. Most of them, however, in Rome had Roman names. These were Jupiter (Zeus), Juno (Hera), Neptune (Poseidon), Vesta (Hestia), Mars (Ares), Minerva (Athena), Venus (Aphrodite), Mercury (Hermes), Diana (Artemis), Vulcan or Mulciber (Hephaestus), Ceres (Demeter).
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Edith Hamilton (Mythology)
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I’ve NEVER been the cool guy. I guess it skips a generation? Because my daughters, Sami and Juno, are really cool. My wife, Melissa, was always a popular kid too. It’s weird to live in a home surrounded by the cool kids. I live in fear of walking into the living room, seeing them all talking and immediately stopping when they notice that I’m there. I ask them, β€œWhat’s going on?” My two-year-old, Juno, responds, β€œNothing.” Then they all turn to each other, laugh conspiratorially, and walk out of the room together while looking back at me like, β€œDork!
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W. Kamau Bell (The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian)
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She was angry with him, turning everything into words. Violets were Juno's eyelids, and windflowers were on ravished brides. How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.
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D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
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Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.” β€œGreat,” Percy said. β€œI always wanted to be glue.” Juno laced her crooked fingers.
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Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune: The Graphic Novel (The Heroes of Olympus: The Graphic Novels, #2))
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And a thought spoke quietly from under that thought, there is no God. God is a pattern we impose on chaos. Just like beauty. Saying, there, look at that one. God is not there. Nor beauty. He's over there, look. The red can cupping the sliver coin of light. God's beauty. In the desert of salt that we can't see at all, that surrounds us.
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Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet)
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I think I’ve known hunger, just not the type he worried about.
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Juno Dawson (Clean)
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Time is not ours to take or hold, pour or contain
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Juno Dawson (Wonderland)
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Getting through the day seems like a good place to start. I don't have to be strong for ever, just the next twenty- four hours. Even less than that.
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Juno Dawson (Stay Another Day)
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Imagine feeling likeβ€”on top of being a quirk of natureβ€”you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher.
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Juno Dawson (What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary)
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LGBTQ+ people do not choose to be LGBTQ+. Bigots choose to hate.
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Juno Dawson (This Book Is Gay)
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Both history and future are fictions. Only the present is real.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1))
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When I visit schools, most now have at least one β€œgay couple” and, importantly, the rest of the school doesn’t seem to give a flying fig.
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Juno Dawson (This Book Is Gay)
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You can do almost anything in prison, but you can't leave and you can never dance.
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Karl Geary (Juno Loves Legs)
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There's really nothing to prepare a person for having their hand taken in just the right way.
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Karl Geary (Juno Loves Legs)
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Charisma is a kind of magic, a very dangerous and unquantifiable weapon.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1))
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You've taken things apart and put them back together," Chinara reminded her. "Like Ikea furniture, not people!
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Juno Dawson (The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2))
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Yes, you have Nana and Pops, you have a great kid, you have me. I am here for you every day, for forever, but please, Jess. It isn’t the same. You’re talking about wanting to have someone to come home to, to talk to, and yeahβ€”to get naked with. It isn’t selfish to want that. You aren’t somehow putting Juno second by occasionally putting your needs first. Juno needs a happy mom.
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Christina Lauren (The Soulmate Equation)
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Diaspora was not an army, she had not raised fighters, but – like any queer she could name – Val and Kane were inherently warriors. When you have fought to be who you are your whole life, you are used to fighting.
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Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1))
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It's a struggle, life. Everyone is struggling with something. It's why we've got to be kind to each other, even when it's really fuckin' hard. You just don't know. You can't tell by looking. You can't tell by looking.
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Juno Dawson (Stay Another Day)
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I throw on some sweatpants and tell everyone I want a 'real' coffee which sounds more believable than telling them I'm going for a run. That would literally never happen unless I was running away from a murderer and even then I'd try to reason with him
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Juno Dawson (Stay Another Day)
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There is no progressive version of criminalisation. Abuses such as racist policing, corruption, and sexual assault are fundamentally bound up with the vulnerability of the sex worker who, when defined as criminal, has little recourse to justice or protection.
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Juno Mac & Molly Smith (Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights)
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One cannot be given too many or too frequent warnings against this negligent or even base way of thinking, that seeks out the principle among empirical motivations and laws, since human reason in its weariness gladly reposes on this pillow and, in the dream of sweet illusions (which lets it embrace a cloud instead of Juno), supplants the place of morality with a bastard patched together from limbs of quite diverse ancestry, which looks similar to whatever anyone wants to see, but not to virtue, for him who has once beheld it in its true shape.
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Immanuel Kant (Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Paperback – January 1, 1981)
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the queen of the gods, I’d hope she was more in a Hera mood than a Juno mood. Can I go back to sleep now?” Annabeth stared at the branch above the fire, dripping Lethe water into the cups. She looked so worried, Jason wondered if she was considering a drink to forget her troubles. Then she stood and tossed Clovis his pillow. β€œThanks, Clovis. We’ll see you at dinner.” β€œCan I get room service?” Clovis yawned and stumbled to his bunk. β€œI feel like…zzzz…” He collapsed with his butt in the air and his face buried in pillow. β€œWon’t he suffocate?” Jason asked. β€œHe’ll be fine,” Annabeth said. β€œBut I’m beginning to think that you are in serious trouble.
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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But in a horse-chariot they brought [38] me to the sands of Aulis, a bride, alas! unhappy bride to the son of Nereus' daughter, alas! And now a stranger I dwell in an unpleasant home on the inhospitable sea, unwedded, childless, without city, without a friend, not chanting Juno in Argos, nor in the sweetly humming loom adorning with the shuttle the image of Athenian Pallas [39] and of the Titans, but imbruing altars with the shed blood of strangers, a pest unsuited to the harp, [of strangers] sighing forth [40] a piteous cry, and shedding a piteous tear. And now indeed forgetfulness of these matters [comes upon] me, but now I mourn my brother dead in Argos, whom I left yet an infant at the breast, yet young, yet a germ in his mother's arms and on her bosom, Orestes [the future] holder of the sceptre in Argos.
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Euripides (The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.)
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Anti-prostitution feminism is a place where men can participate in flinging slurs like "holes," "whores," "orifices," and "cum dumpsters" at sex workers– and call it feminist analysis. It's a place where men who consider themselves feminist-aligned can patronize and dismiss prostitute women, as men have done for centuries. It's a place where a police officer can rifle through the bathroom bin at a sex worker's flat, retrieve blood-soaked tampons, publish photographs of them in his memoir (with a touching dedication to sex workers he has met in his work: 'this is my attempt to describe your reality'), and still be treated like a feminist activist. As sex worker Charlotte Shane observes, anti-prostitution feminism makes it progressive for men to dwell incessantly on violent, coercive sex and abject bodies while at the same time enjoying praise and even Pulitzer Prizes.
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Juno Mac & Molly Smith
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I'm just thinking. Someone asked me to do something and I'm not sure whether I should." Now Juno frowned. "Is it bad?" "No. Not bad." Purring, the cat climbed up onto Juno's chest. "Is someone going to get hurt?" "I hope not," Jess said. "I don't think so." "Do you feel unsafe?" Jess bit her lips, trying to hold in a charmed laugh, This kid was repeating exactly what she would say if their positions were reversed. "No." Leaning in, she pressed a kiss to her head. "I don;t feel unsafe." Once she sat up again, her daughter pinned her with a stern look. "Will you be lying?" You're an important part of our research study, one-half of a score we need to validate - our invalidate - our binning paradigm prior to launch. She shook her head. "I won't be lying." Juno set her book on the nightstand and scooped up Pigeon before snuggling them both down into her comforter. "Would you learn something?" Jess felt an intense pulse of pride in her kid, and the knee-jerk negative answer evaporated in her mouth. Because... maybe she would.
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Christina Lauren (The Soulmate Equation)
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The road climbs curving out of wet ground thick with cedars, and up onto a plateau meadow where Jersey cows, beautiful as deer, watching them with Juno eyes. Along the trail the ferns are dense, drooping with wet, twenty kinds of them. Again he does not know them (in my experience, ferns are an exclusively feminine expertise), and she tells him: hayscented fern, wood fern, sensitive fern, cinnamon fern, ostrich fern, interrupted fern, Christmas fern, bracken, maidenhair - names that are as pleasant to his ear as the woods smells are to his nose. In the intervals between clumps of spruce, the moss spreads a green carpet, inches thick, feather-soft, with candles of ground pine and the domes of spotted orange mushrooms rising out of it... Those aren't toadstools, Those are mushrooms. Deadly Amanita mushrooms. Ne mangez pas. You know everything that grows here. That's wonderful." Not so wonderful. I grew up here. I grew up in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, too, but I couldn't tell you the name of one thing that grows there. One, maybe Lilacs. You didn't grow up with my mother.
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Wallace Stegner
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Prostitution arrests are racist. They have always been racist. In 1866, San Francisco police arrested 137 women, 'virtually all Chinese'; the police boasted that they had 'expelled three hundred Chinese women.' In the 1970s, the American Civil Liberties Union found that black women were seven times more likely to be arrested for prostitution-related offenses than white women. This disparity is no relic of the past: between 2012 and 2015, 85 percent of people charged with 'loitering for the purpose of prostitution' in New York City were Black or Latinx- groups that only make up 54 percent of the city's population. Increases in prostitution enforcement mean increases in the arrests of women of color. Between 2012 and 2016, the New York Police Department stepped up enforcement mean increases in the arrest of women of color. Between 2012 and 2016, the New York Police Department stepped up enforcement targeting massage parlors. As journalist Melissa Gira Grant details, during this period the arrests of Asian people in New York charged either with 'unlicensed massage' or prostitution went up by 2,700 percent. Arrests on the street target Black and Latina women - who may not even be selling sex - simply for wearing 'tight jeans' or a crop top. The NYPD do not arrest white women in affluent areas of the city for wearing jeans.
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Juno Mac & Molly Smith