D Simone Quotes

#1. I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.

Simone Elkeles

#2. Choking the gopher. What'd you think I'd do, my homework?

Simone Elkeles

#3. I'd seen enough grief as a priest to know that people never really moved on, at least not in the linear, segmented way our culture expected people to.

Sierra Simone

#4. He has eyes so expressive they give a hint to more than what he portrays. He's dedicated to his friends, family, and even his motorcyle. He touched me as if I were made of glass. He kissed me as if he'd savor it for the rest of his life.

Simone Elkeles

#5. I don't like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You'd do well to remember that. (Simone)
Or what? You're going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Listen, I don't know what the hell happened between you and Marco. To be honest I don't really want to know, 'cause if I did I'd probably want to kick the shit outta him."
"I don't need you to protect me."
"What if I want to?

Simone Elkeles

#7. If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off.

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. Because I'm tryin' to push you away when all I want to do is hold you. I know you say you don't want a hero, but damn I'd like to be that guy who'll save you from spiders and whatever and whoever else hurts you.

Simone Elkeles

#9. The world's a dangerous place; I'd rather be harmed fighting for this than from something meaningless.

Simone King

#10. Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?

Simone Elkeles

#11. Following this logic, the millions of people who perished during epidemics of influenza in the early twentieth century should have really pulled themselves together, instead of making all this fuss and dying in the most inconsiderate manner.

Claire D. Simone

#12. Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family ... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

Simone Elkeles

#13. You'd be surprised how far away half dead is from fully dead,

Simone Elkeles

#14. I didn't like seeing you with him" he says. "I don't think I'd like seeing you with any other guy ... beside me.

Simone Elkeles

#15. I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#16. Where'd you find her?
He picked me out of a catalog.

Megan Hart

#17. If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.

Simone Elkeles

#18. I can't be seen climbing through no hearse's hatchback! It used to be dead bodies back there!" "You a lie. Me and my woman ain't dead," Cousin Shake insisted. My eyes popped wide open. The visual he'd just painted was about to send me crazy. "Cousin

Ni-Ni Simone

#19. Wasabi. Now hoiteys. Seriously, you'd think I really didn't know English.

Simone Elkeles

#20. When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

Hannah Simone

#21. If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee.

Simone Elkeles

#22. From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

Simone Elkeles

#23. When they're together, the world could fall apart around them and they'd never notice or care as long as they have each other.
About Alex and Brittany.

Simone Elkeles

#24. -You think I've got a big ego and an attitude problem?
-I don't think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it's a Fuentes flaw.
-I'd call it an asset. It's what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible.
Carlos and Brittany

Simone Elkeles

#25. When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

Jerry Hall

#26. If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.

Lou Doillon

#27. You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I'd given up on. Thank you for proving to me it's not just a fairy tale.

Simone Elkeles

#28. I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

Nikki Giovanni

#29. Cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.

Simone Elkeles

#30. But confidence bred confidence, that's what her dad had always told her back in the days when she'd been a skinny, flat-chested nerd girl with a boy-intimidating vocabulary and no hope of being asked to the prom.

Megan Hart

#31. It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

Simone Elkeles

#32. If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich ... not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.

Simone Elkeles

#33. He had been her sun, the star she circled endlessly. Helpless against the gravity she'd been unable to fight. She'd flown too close and melted her wings made of wax. She'd fallen. Maybe she'd never been meant to fly.

Megan Hart

#34. I realized that I'd destroyed my legitimacy with myself, and maybe that was worse than my public legitimacy being destroyed.

Sierra Simone

#35. You're so critical. Oh, God, I'd do anything for you to stop blaming me for every little thing that goes wrong. Love me for who I am. Love Shelley for who she is. Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is just too damn short.

Simone Elkeles

#36. My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

Hannah Simone

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

Simone Elkeles