Jeanne Wakatsuki Quotes

#1. When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

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#2. The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.

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#3. That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

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#4. This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things ... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

Spotted Tail

#5. POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.

Bijou Hunter

#6. A mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#7. We're Garde,' I say, correcting this billion-year-old godlike energy force, because what the hell, we've come this far. 'We're here for your help.

Pittacus Lore

#8. I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

Julia Child

#9. You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.

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#10. Why has the blowjob had a dual existence for so long, sometimes subterranean and sometimes flaunted, before bursting into plain view as the specifically American sex act?

Christopher Hitchens

#11. None of us wanted you to go through the portal because we would never put your life in danger before our own." "Why?" "Because we're adults, and we care about you. We've had a chance to grow up and become what we are. Yours is a life still to be lived,

A.G. Riddle

#12. By 'consumer society', I mean one in which commodities are increasingly used to express the core values of that society but also become the principal form through which people come to see, recognise and understand those values.

Daniel Miller

#13. I try to be honest about the shame that I feel because with honesty comes empowerment and also understanding.

Jenny Lawson

#14. Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

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#15. Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.

Lauren Kate

#16. ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

Matthew Henry

#17. I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to ... I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.

Alison Pill

#18. Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

Barry White

#19. I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted

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#20. Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

Matt Smith

#21. A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Thomas Carlyle