"My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once"

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Source : J. J. Johnson (2015). “This Girl Is Different”, p.166, Open Road Media

J. J. Johnson

#Teenager Quotes #My Boyfriend Quotes #My Best Friend Quotes

“Itâ€™s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.”
“I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.”

Source : Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”
“You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.”

Source : Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.99, Ellen Key
“I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.”
“I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."”
“We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.”

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