A Look Inside

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

This week's book is Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

"An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word."

"So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were."

"He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't."

"Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer."

"Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in."

A Look Inside

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

This week's book is Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

"Get over here and talk to her. She’s a reporter, not a Dementor.”
“Harry Potter nerd.”
“Whatever. Take the damn phone."

"That would make a fantastic college entrance essay. ‘I Killed My Boyfriend and Still Managed to Maintain a 4.2 GPA and the Lead in the Spring Musical."

"Hello. Audrey’s phone. She’s currently suiting up for a soul-deadening hourly job that provides no benefits, how may I help you?"

"Did you just say ‘frolic’?”
“Is it not a word?”
“Who the hell says ‘frolic’?”
“I say frolic. And more people should.”
“They should say frolic or actually frolic.”
“Both."

“Do you want to break up with him?”
“I don’t know. Distract me from feeling miserable.”
“Umm… ummm… I got new shoes.”
“Woo.”
“Wanna come over and try them on?”
“I’ll be there in ten minutes."

A Look Inside

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This week's book is Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

"Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do."

"Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't."

"I don't go out with strangers," I said.
"Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five."

"She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!"
Patch grinned, "I can fly."

"The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away."

"What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed."

"One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for."

A Look Inside

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This week's book is Tithe by Holly Black

"Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way."

"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."

"If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back."

"The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended."

"So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced.
He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?"
"Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned.

A Look Inside

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This week's book is Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

"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."

"Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise."

"Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else."

"Look, 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 didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there. "

A Look Inside

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This week's book is The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

"She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be."

"Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them."

"There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?"

"These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all."

"Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious."

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This week's book is Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

"You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real."

"Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear."

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."

"Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!"

"I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded."

"But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction."

A Look Inside

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This week's book is North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

"Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring."

"That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there."

"My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither."

"There is real comfort in being quiet."

"Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun."

A Look Inside: Sloppy Firsts

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Today's book is Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty

"You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality."

"The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all."

"The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless"

"She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia."

A Look Inside: Life As We Knew It

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"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."

"I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to."

"We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past."

"Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Nineteen Minutes

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

Today's book is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.

"You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it."

"To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself."

"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Wintergirls

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Today's book is Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

"I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet."

"What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist."

"Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest."

"Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?"

"I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true."

"We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Elsewhere

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Today's book is Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

"If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought."

"The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love."

"No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do."

"On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen..."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Going Bovine

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Today's book is Going Bovine by Libba Bray!

"I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas."

"These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation."

"In a world like this one, only the random makes sense."

"But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps."

"You can never know about about your oun destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?"

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Keeping the Moon

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

Today's book is Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen.

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."

"It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. It's so easy. It's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along."

"I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way."

"All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you."

"Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Catching Fire

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

Today's book is Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

"So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans. "

"Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable."

"I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. "

"If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: My Sister's Keeper

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

Today's book is My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

"...seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."

-Amanda

A Look Inside: Geektastic

A Look Inside is a post where I give you a couple of quotes from a book that I've read and enjoyed!

Today's book is Geektastic by Various Authors

"I make a little hand gesture that is supposed to mean "drunk" but Probably looks more like "I'm a loser."

"Someday, I'll be the world's greatest paleontologist. Because I am patient like nobody's business."

-Amanda