Top 100 Quotes About Lindy
#1. I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.
Frankie Manning
#2. Lindy became an instructor at an upscale gym, where she taught aerobic pole dancing
Joe Hill
#3. I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea!
Helen George
#4. Ooh-kaay. Moving on from odd reaction to completely innocent question.
Zart, Lindy (2014-09-04). Ordinary (Anything But Series Book 1) (p. 14). Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Lindy Zart
#5. Far as I can see, we mostly exist as *ideas* in each other's heads. The way *you* see me. The way my *boss* sees me. The way the *waitress* at Lindy's sees me.
Mike Carey
#7. Better?" I went from holding her hand to hugging her. "Lindy, you loved me when I wasn't even human.
You kissed me when I had no lips. You saw what was deep down inside me when I wasn't even sure
about it myself. Believe me, there's no way I could do better. I think you're perfect.
Alex Flinn
#8. But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
Judith Viorst
#9. When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.
Katy Perry
#10. What are we going to do about this mess?" asked Riley, staring at the large pile of dirt and melted table. "I didn't see anything," said Jess. "The truth is out there," added Lindy. "Trust no one," I muttered.
Rose Montague
#11. You look good there."
"Where?"
"In my bed."
Duuuuude.
Zart, Lindy (2014-11-20). Roomies (p. 110). Kindle Edition.
Lindy Zart
#12. I'm competing, Kennedy," he breathes against my neck. "And I'm going to win."
Zart, Lindy (2014-11-20). Roomies (p. 154). Kindle Edition.
Lindy Zart
#13. Be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.
Lindy Booth
#15. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.
Lindy West
#16. I don't think there is a question as to whether or not I want you, because that is painfully blatant right now, but did I miss you? It was so much more than that. And do I need you? Yes. I need you. My heart needs you, Delilah.
Lindy Zart
#17. I love running dresses! I need to make working out as enjoyable as possible, and a cute outfit is definitely part of that.
Lindy Booth
#18. I don't know any woman who hasn't experienced some level of sexual predation, from catcalls, to unwanted advances at bars, to emotional manipulation, to violent rape. I certainly have - even "unrapeable" me. All women do need to worry about rape.
Lindy West
#19. ... I'll always love you, even after I'm dead and gone and am nothing. My love will linger on. It's that awesome, that strong, that real. Have no doubt of that, Sara Walker.
Lindy Zart
#20. And isn't it weird that no one wants to change who they are, yet they aren't even trying to be themselves? Just a thought. We're all so focused on being somebody, and it's usually never the real us.
Lindy Zart
#22. I'm not saying I never cared, because when I was younger, yes, I cared. I cared too much and I was hurt because of it, but not anymore. In recent years, I embrace me, exactly as I am,
Lindy Zart
#23. I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.
Lindy Booth
#24. It's so pathetic, the tough-guy posturing, but so sinister, because, to put it plainly, that's how black men die. Insecure, pee-pants white men assume that any disagreement is a life-threatening situation.
Lindy West
#25. The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.
Lindy West
#26. You only have to look back five years to see a different world, and, by extension, tangible proof that culture is ours to shape, if we try. Obviously
Lindy West
#28. The real scam is that being bones isn't enough either. The game is rigged. There is no perfection.
Lindy West
#29. My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
Lindy Booth
#30. Don't act like I'm dying and you're not. I just have a better idea of when it's happening to me.
Lindy Zart
#31. I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.
Lindy Booth
#32. I think I would have missed you even if we'd never met.
Lindy Zart
#33. His body heat seeps into my side, as does his sweet smell that makes me homesick for a home I've never had.
Lindy Zart
#34. Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate.
Lindy West
#35. A lazy writer (it's easy to hate things) or a versatile one? I don't believe in an afterlife. We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job.
Lindy West
#36. Strength wasn't decided by what you could do, but by what you could do without.
Lindy Zart
#37. Your father ... isn't good with emotions." "Yeah. Figured that out a while ago." Like, when I was four and cried because our family cat died and he offered to have it stuffed as a means to make me feel better. It didn't.
Lindy Zart
#38. I realize that sometimes we are our biggest critic, and that the person we have the hardest time gaining approval from is usually ourselves.
Lindy Zart
#39. Why would someone request that their toenails be painted at a podiatrist's? Hot pink, even. We are not a salon. When I told the guy that, he got really irate and left.
Lindy Zart
#41. We're not done talking about this."
"Yes, we are, because in case you didn't notice, you just walked out, hence the ending of the conversation!"
He comes back to say, "It will be resumed at a later date."
"I'm calling in sick that day.
Lindy Zart
#42. It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
Lindy Booth
#43. You're saying one day I'll be a butterfly," he says skeptically. I look up. "I'm saying you've always been one.
Lindy Zart
#44. Only within the arms of nature, am I truly free.
Lindy Zart
#45. Don't trust anyone who promises you a new life. Pick-up artists, lifestyle gurus, pyramid-scheme face cream evangelists, Weight Watchers coaches: These people make their living off of your failures.
Lindy West
#46. even in a world of pain and ugliness, cruelty and loss, there are still amazing things to cling to, to tell us not to give up, not to lose hope, and continue on to another day. There is life in death, always.
Lindy Zart
#47. I am a lip person. I constantly need a really good lip moisturizer with me. Mine is a Clairin's moisture replenishing lip balm. I have two of them: I have one I keep next to my bed, so it's the first and last thing in the morning and evening, and then 10 times a day in my purse.
Lindy Booth
#48. You know what is so appealing about you, in a twisted, messed up kind of way?"
"What's that?"
"You have no idea how tactless you are."
"Well. I have some idea," I grumble.
Lindy Zart
#49. You'll never heal if you don't face what hurts you.
Lindy Zart
#50. I had waited so long for someone to pick me. And then he changed his mind. I
Lindy West
#51. As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.
Lindy Boggs
#52. Dave brought a knife and a gun to a comedy show. Because of a disagreement about whether or not comedy clubs are safe for women. Because the way people talk onstage has no bearing on how they behave in real life. It's
Lindy West
#53. Don't blameme in the morning when you're irrevocably obsessed with me."
"I don't think I need to wait until morning for that to happen,
Lindy Zart
#54. I mean, I guess I don't really have you, but I feel like I do. I feel like when you smile at me ... my whole body feels it. I've never felt so much so soon for anyone. I don't want to lose this feeling. You woke my soul up and the rest of me followed.
Lindy Zart
#55. Being an adult doesn't mean you're suddenly stuffy and boring - it just means you're a little more responsible, a little more considerate. Well, that's my definition of what being an adult means. And I'm always right, so, ya know, that's what it is.
Lindy Zart
#56. I know that trolls are fundamentally sad people; I know that I've already defeated them in every substantive arena - by being smart, by being happy, by being successful, by being listened to, by being loved.
Lindy West
#57. I just, I don't know, put up so many invisible walls between us when I was younger that it seems impossible to tear them down now.
Lindy Zart
#58. It's hard to feel hurt or frightened when you're flooded with pity.
Lindy West
#59. That's the thing about 'what ifs'; they don't matter. They don't change anything. All they do is make it unable for you to heal.
Lindy Zart
#60. We were just so bad at being together. He felt as guilty as I felt pathetic, and it made us closer, for a while.
Lindy West
#61. Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.
Lindy West
#62. Something remarkable can always be the result of something devastating, if you choose to find that one positive in a nest of negatives.
Lindy Zart
#63. We're all building our world, right now, in real time. Let's build it better.
Lindy West
#64. [He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.
Lindy West
#65. Something you want to tell me?"
"Um ... your scrub top's on inside out?"
"What?" He glances down. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
I shrug. "It was funny.
Lindy Zart
#66. Privilege means that it's easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least often get the most help. I
Lindy West
#67. But what scares me the most about him is that he makes me want more - more of everything. More than this life, more than what I am promised, more than I can ever truly have.
Lindy Zart
#68. This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.
Lindy Booth
#69. Me, the girl with no friends, yet who has the heart that wants to save everyone.
Lindy Zart
#70. I don't think you ever realized how unimportant high school and your role in it really was. High school is what happens before your life begins. You can be the top dog in that big brown building and a nobody outside it.
Lindy Zart
#71. Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the world fully informed about my body and reproductive health.
Lindy West
#72. In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you
Lindy West
#73. But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.
Lindy Boggs
#74. It is true that no one can save you, no one but yourself. And sometimes ... even you cannot save you, no matter how much you wish it was untrue. Sadly, some things are not meant to be saved.
Lindy Zart
#75. Giving your heart to someone was like giving them unimaginable power over you.
Lindy Zart
#76. You know ... Holding on isn't holding on. It's letting go.
Lindy Zart
#77. It's north and south pole. When you win you feel great, but when you lose it, it's like you've lost 10 games in a row.
Lindy Ruff
#78. I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'
Lindy Booth
#79. Money sure does fix things, doesn't it? Except for things that can't be fixed.
Like broken hearts.
Alex Flinn
#80. You hold on tight from now on, so tight it hurts. Got it? Don't let go of me, not ever. Don't worry about hurting me, don't worry about suffocating me, don't worry about holding on too tight. You hold on and you never let go. You'll only hurt me, I'll only suffocate, if you let go. Promise.
Lindy Zart
#81. Aham and I weren't getting back together-we swore we weren't, we couldn't-but when I wasn't looking, he had become my family anyway.
Lindy West
#82. I try not to. I mean, you shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?
Alex Flinn
#83. I wear embarrassing like a velvet coat of awesomeness.
Lindy Zart
#84. And all those times that I tried so hard to get you to hang out with me, and I just wanted to be around you so much, I've never been more right about anything in my life. The only way I can think to say it is that you are better than I thought people could be.
Lindy West
#85. Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping.
Lindy Zart
#86. Like most fat people who've been lectured about diet and exercise since childhood, I actually know an inordinate amount about nutrition and fitness.
Lindy West
#87. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#88. Misogyny is explicitly, visibly incentivized and rewarded. You can watch it self-perpetuate in front of your eyes. I
Lindy West
#89. Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
Lindy Boggs
#90. The sound of his stable, strong heart soothing. She let her eyes close, and though her heart was torn and possibly irreparable, like Lincoln's, with the two ruined pieces there was one whole heart.
Lindy Zart
#91. Love was forever, love was not lost when a life was; love did not fall away or weaken a person. Love was strong and people were stronger because of it; love continued, in all forms, in every way, until the end of time and even after that.
Lindy Zart
#92. It's never about how much you have-it's about how much what you have means to you.
Lindy Zart
#93. You are it for me. Understand? There's no one else. There won't ever be. There never really was. Just you. It's always been you.
Lindy Zart
#94. It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
Lindy Boggs
#95. The whole art of merchandising," he said, "consists of appealing to the imagination.
Lindy Woodhead
#96. Christian was well aware how hard it was to keep the house clean, the clothes laundered, and the meals cooked. His mom had an extremely hard job. He would argue with anyone who hinted otherwise.
Lindy Zart
#97. So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
Lindy Boggs
#98. Your obvious need for attention and melodramatic acting sort of trumped my disfigurement.
Lindy Zart
#99. You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.
Lindy Ruff
#100. I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.
Lindy Boggs
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