Juli Baker Quotes

#1. I have spent much of my adult life trying to figure out how to experience holiness, and now I know that the struggle to figure things out is antithetical to the experience. You simply relax into holiness the way you would a warm bath.

Victor Shamas

#2. Since when do you believe in 'meant to be'?"
"Since fucking ever, Georgie, pay attention. I'm a romantic."
"Just ask the parade of Saturday-morning girls."
"Parades are romantic. Who doesn't love a parade?

Rainbow Rowell

#3. My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#4. I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

Cybill Shepherd

#5. To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Aristotle.

#6. But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore.
I liked it.
I liked her.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#7. A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destructive, just as a freedom that did not respect the freedom of others or find the common measure of our respective liberties would become anarchy and destroy authority.

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#9. You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

Idries Shah

#10. The frame frames a frame of mind.

John Paul Caponigro

#11. From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

Eric Liu

#12. Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.

Mike Singletary

#13. Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Yo-Yo Ma

#14. Saved my life," Grim said.
"You saved mine."
"Good team, then.

Juliet Marillier

#15. We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.

Gemma Cairney

#16. Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

Jef Raskin