"Alex touches her arm. "You look nice." "Nice?" she repeats. "Try harder, Alex." He flushes adorably. "Really nice," he says. "Next time, try this," Harry says. He reaches for my hand. "Franny, I didn't know what beauty was until I saw you walking toward us a minute ago. "I like this better," I say, pulling away. "At least he sounded like he meant it." "I meant it," Harry says, almost irritably."

-- Claire LaZebnik

#Nice Quotes #Hands Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.”
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
“Iâ€™ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. Iâ€™ve been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. Iâ€™ve been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking”
“I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.”
“There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment”
“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”
“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.”
“The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.”

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