Sheinmel Alyssa Quotes

#1. You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it's only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else's love.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#2. But then there she is, on her own, chewing gum, pulling her hair back with one hand and getting her MetroCard out with the other. Girls can do so much at once.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#3. Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

Dogen

#4. When someone has come to you for your expertise and your expertise has failed, what do you have left? You have only your character to fall back upon - and

Atul Gawande

#5. To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep.

Lisa See

#6. You say that like she edited Ulysses," I said. "I don't care!" said my friend. "It was a No. 1 best-seller!" VII.

Keith Gessen

#7. I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Albert Einstein

#8. Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#9. A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

Christopher Michael Cillizza

#10. A storm's always coming," I state. "Some don't have rain.

Katie McGarry

#11. It's 7:42 on a Tuesday when the phone rings. I only notice the time because I'm watching Wheel of Fortune, which is so boring that I think I might be better entertained if I turned off the TV and stared at the blank screen.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#12. Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

Louise Bogan

#13. Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. And I know that I would never, not in a million years, be kissing her like this with my hands in those places, if she hadn't told me that I had moves, that I was smooth.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#15. Oh my god. I can't believe I slapped him.

And I can't help thinking Wow, I did it with my left hand, Marnie would be so proud.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel