Beli's Quotes

#1. A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.

Junot Diaz

#2. I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Danny Bonaduce

#3. You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Arnold Bennett

#4. The only thing I do to my bat is put some tape around the handle to build it up a little bit because I broke my finger about six years ago and can't really close it the way I want to. Other than that, the same bat, same Louisville Sluggers.

Tony Gwynn

#5. Let's just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

Junot Diaz

#6. Elsewhere called the Strom Thurmond Maneuver.) Pujols of course blamed Beli for everything. Sat in the office of the rector and

Junot Diaz

#7. Ever since Barry's funeral, Gavin had dwelled, with a sense of deep inadequacy, on the comparatively small gap that he was sure he would leave behind in his community, should he die.

J.K. Rowling

#8. In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. The words "I love you" become nothing but noise. But that's why we kiss. To say with our lips what we couldn't before.

Pleasefindthis

#10. All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

E. E. Cummings

#11. It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves

MaryJanice Davidson

#12. The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

Richard Powers

#13. In fact, I believe that, barring a couple of key moments, Beli never thought about that life again. Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination. Embraced the power of the Untilles. And from it forged herself anew.

Junot Diaz

#14. My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

Richelle Mead

#15. Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

Junot Diaz