Alex Fuentes Quotes

#1. You're an asshole."
"And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.

Simone Elkeles

#2. As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.

Asif Kapadia

#3. Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks.
Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood back in Chicago I worshiped him. "You don't want to hear my answer to that.

Simone Elkeles

#4. I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

Simone Elkeles

#5. Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Henry A. Kissinger

#6. The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

#7. Don't ever pity me.

Simone Elkeles

#8. There should be no restlessness within, no matter what the circumstances. If there is restlessness within, know that the kashays have not left yet.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'.

Simone Elkeles

#10. But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Elkeles

#11. Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.

Simone Elkeles

#12. What would it take for you to go out with me?

Simone Elkeles

#13. I'm poor, not homeless.

Simone Elkeles

#14. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

Simone Elkeles

#15. [On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.

Rebecca West

#16. They say every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things. There is only the present and nothing to remember.

Jeanette Winterson

#17. I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more.

Simone Elkeles

#18. And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle ... and without magnets glued to them."
"Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know.

Simone Elkeles

#19. I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Simone Elkeles

#20. What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

Valerie Solanas

#22. [about her offer of a Swedish massage]
Alex: You're not Swedish.
Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

Simone Elkeles

#23. When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.

Simone Elkeles

#24. Do you think about making love with me?"
I lie awake most nights, fantasizing about sleeping next to her ... loving her. "Right now, muneca, makin' love to you is the only thing on my mind.

Simone Elkeles