"Girls donâ€™t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, donâ€™t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while theyâ€™ve given up and try to lure someone else."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Girl Quotes #Running Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.”
“Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.”
“Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”

Source : James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press
“If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be BeyoncÃ©. If Aaliyah were still here, she and BeyoncÃ© would be neck and neck.”
“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage
“He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.”
“Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.71, Highlights Press

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