"I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year."

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Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#Girl Quotes #Nice Quotes #Years Quotes

“One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.”
“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead”
“Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170hp is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling... penguins... while making love... to a beautiful woman while on fire, on stage... in front of the Queen. It's all going to go wrong.”
“It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant”
“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.”
“I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better.”
“Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.48, Penguin
“Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's the place from which I write, and the more troubled the circumstances, the deeper into the hearts and psyches of these characters I'm likely to go, opening every door in that dark hallway, and walking all the way in.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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