Alex Ridgemont Quotes

#1. I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it.
Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble.
His writing was running left to right. Not the words in reverse order, but the letter themselves. All of it. It was mirror writing- to be read by the Devil.

Theresa Breslin

#2. Complicating matters even further, on a day-to-day basis, in the same individual, the sensory sensitivities can change, especially when the person is tired or stressed. These

Temple Grandin

#3. Was there some kind of law about drop-kicking assholes in the face? Probably. They always had laws against things that needed to be done.

Francesca Zappia

#4. The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

William E. Gladstone

#5. artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance Many

Jen Sincero

#6. The only thing missing was Miles. But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair.

Francesca Zappia

#7. Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.

Francesca Zappia

#9. There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.

Francesca Zappia

#10. You know a school is run by stuck-up sons of bitches when it doesn't even have a bike rack.

Francesca Zappia

#11. Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. He wasn't particularly loud about it, but it was Miles laughing, a sound no mortal had ever heard before.

Francesca Zappia

#12. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

Francesca Zappia

#13. Do you do this all the time?' he asked.

'No,' I said. 'Just today.'

He smiled.

Francesca Zappia

#14. No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.

Francesca Zappia

#15. Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

Francesca Zappia

#16. Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Katy Butler

#17. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.

Francesca Zappia

#18. The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Richard A. Epstein

#19. Being true to yourself it always the right thing to do.

Heather R. Blair

#20. Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?'

'Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?

Francesca Zappia

#21. Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

Francesca Zappia

#22. I stood there looking stupid, because that's what I do when I'm accused of something I didn't do. Forget making a case or, you know, denying that I'd done it.

Denying hadn't helped me in the past.

Francesca Zappia

#23. I wished I had put more cherries on that slice. The whole jar of cherries. I could watch him eat a whole jar of cherries.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what was happening to me?

Francesca Zappia

#24. Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.

CLAMP

#25. The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

Henry A. Kissinger

#26. It kind of felt like she was kicking me in the gut, and every kick said
I don't want you.
I don't need you.
I don't love you.

Francesca Zappia

#27. To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Paul Engle

#28. A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

William James

#29. I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.

But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.

Francesca Zappia

#30. No: What the heck happened?
Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?

Alyson Noel

#31. Dear Asshole: Thank you for keeping your word and believing me. It was more than I expected. Also, I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by my gluing your locker shut at the beginning of this year. However, I am not sorry that I did it, because it was a lot of fun. Love, Alex.

Francesca Zappia

#32. Yeah. I told you he was crazy, right? I heard he does some weird stuff at home, too.' He said it with a conspiratorial stage whisper. 'Like mowing his lawn, and trimming his peonies.'

'Peonies?' I balked. 'God, he really is a freak.

Francesca Zappia