Jupiter Grades Quotes

#1. Does the written word tame passions? Or subdue the forces of nature? Or does it find a harmony with the inhumanity of the universe? Or incubate a violence, held back but always ready to spring, to claw?

Italo Calvino

#2. I discovered early in life that living frightened me when I was sober.

Eugene O'Neill

#3. Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

Barbra Streisand

#4. I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

NeNe Leakes

#5. I've taken my love life into my own hands . . . please don't read too much into that statement.

Robin Alexander

#6. Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

Cassia Leo

#7. The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

Mason Cooley

#8. As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

Veronica Roth