"Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real ***** things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out."

-- Melina Marchetta

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult.”
“Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”
“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.”
“People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'”
“Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.”
“Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2011). “Undead and Undermined: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.86, Penguin
“The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.”
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

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