Girls
Quotes - I want to be the best version of myself
“I
want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk
into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Girls
will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse.
Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.”
―
Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
“In
my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they
do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”
―
Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations
“Yes,
boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They
are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an
outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times
when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There
are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely
unpractical.”
―
Rachel Hill, A Girl's Guide to Guys: Meeting Them, Managing Them and All That
Love Stuff
“I
don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen
years?"
"Like
I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you
should go by my example."
"Why
not?"
"Because
I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different
stuff."
"Like
ride bikes?" I said.
"No,"
he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off
firecrackers on people's front porches. And..."
"Girls
can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?"
"They
can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the
difference.”
―
Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
“She
was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute
she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break.
She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would
cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful,
'would not' happen.”
―
Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Girls
get screwed.
Not
that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of
things.
The
way things work, how
guys
feel great, but make girls feel
cheap
for doing
exactly
what
they
beg for.
The way
they get to play you,
all
the while claiming they
love
you and making you
believe
it's
true.
The
way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next,
to
move on to the apricot
when
the peach blushes and bruises.
These
things make me believe God's a man after all.”
―
Ellen Hopkins, Crank
“I
waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent
readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting
room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming
themselves.”
―
Emma Cline, The Girls
“That's
the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something
they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be
who I am, much less who I'm not?
My
problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I
don't fit anywhere.”
―
Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die
“I
met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the
same thing.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“Boys
will be boys, that's what people say. No one ever mentions how girls have to be
something other than themselves altogether. We are to stifle the same feelings
that boys are encouraged to display. We are to use gossip as a means of
policing ourselves -- this way those who do succumb to sex but are not damaged
by it are damaged instead by peer malice. Girls demand a covenant because if
one gives in, others will be expected to do the same. We are to remain united
in cruelty, ignorance, and aversion. Or we are to starve the flesh from our
bones, penalizing the body for its nature, castigating ourselves for advances
we are powerless to prevent. We are to make false promises then resist the
attentions solicited. Basically we are to become expert liars.”
―
Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
“Courage,
sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's
what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”
―
Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to
Get Back on the Board
“I
am a strong and powerful woman.
I am
proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.
I am
not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as
a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.
I am
not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.
I
fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.
Irrespective
of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my
abilities.
I
can do anything I set my mind to.
I
celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.”
―
idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your
Ability
“To
look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been
looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle
can ever receive.”
―
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Even
so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I
really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like
dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the
deep, sad summer nights.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
