Sarah Dessen Lock And Key Quotes

#1. I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Frank Zappa

#2. Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

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#3. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.

Kristen Reed

#4. An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andy Warhol

#5. The fewer mistakes you make twice, the easier life is.

Martina Navratilova

#6. I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

Jay Weatherill

#7. Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

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#8. Friends don't leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out

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#9. One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

David Sills

#10. You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

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#11. It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered
so many locks not enough keys.

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#12. One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Sheila Heti

#13. But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

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#14. Downtown Newcago spread out before me, its surfaces reflecting starlight. Everything was steel here. Like a cyborg from the future with the skin ripped off. Only, you know, not murderous. Or, well, alive at all.
Man, I thought. I really do suck at metaphors.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life
-Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key

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#16. Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world - in his world - it was hard to imagine her being so slight. In his mind, she was made of stone.

V.E Schwab

#17. Nate: "And," he said, "boys at twelve aren't exactly slick with the ladies."
Ruby: "'Slick with the ladies'?" I said. "Are you twelve?

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#18. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

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#19. Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

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#20. We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#21. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?

Sarah Dessen