Adeline Quotes

#1. There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.

Colleen Coble

#2. Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.

Jarett Kobek

#3. Adeline hadn't owned a television since 1992.
She'd suffered fifteen years hearing about how the Internet would transform American culture and open new avenues of expression.
But in the end, it was only more people talking about television.

Jarett Kobek

#4. Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

Christopher Moore

#5. I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

Adeline Yen Mah

#6. Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.

Lauren Myracle

#7. Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.

Adeline Yen Mah

#8. Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.

Adeline Yen Mah

#9. Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.

Adeline Yen Mah

#10. Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

Adeline Yen Mah

#11. Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

Sarina Adeline

#12. I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

Adeline Yen Mah

#13. Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Adeline Yen Mah

#14. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

Adeline Yen Mah

#15. Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes.

Kels Adeline Sapp

#16. Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

Adeline Yen Mah

#17. Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Adeline Yen Mah

#18. I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

Adeline Knapp

#19. some men still don't believe that a woman's sexual appetite can be as important to satisfy as theirs. Or they don't believe a woman's sex life can or should be as varied, complex and interesting. Which baffles me, because, I mean, who are these men having sex with?

L. Marie Adeline

#20. Quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine

Adeline Yen Mah

#21. Create your own destiny!

Adeline Yen Mah

#22. I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

Kels Adeline Sapp

#23. Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whisper.
I know who you really are. Who will ever want you, Adelina?
My fury heightens. Everyone. They will cower at my feet, and I will make them bleed.

Marie Lu

#24. That's exactly what I'll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I'm going to ask Big
Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there's
obviously nobody looking out for me. I'll just have to find my own way.

Adeline Yen Mah

#25. Suen Le! (it means, "Let it be.

Adeline Yen Mah

#26. At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Adeline Yen Mah

#27. Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Adeline Yen Mah

#28. Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Adeline Yen Mah

#29. People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;
Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.
But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,
They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

Adeline Yen Mah

#30. But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

Adeline Yen Mah

#31. She informed me that in the future, I was not to throw out Starbucks customers just for being heartless bitches.

Lauren Myracle

#32. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Adeline Yen Mah