Girls
Quotes - The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing
“I've
learned not to walk in with pistols drawn, but rather to keep them hidden in my
petticoats with a hand surreptitiously upon the heel.”
―
Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“I
totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with
Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.”
―
Dana Reinhardt, How to Build a House
“Note
to self: don’t throw things at girls.”
―
Emlyn Chand, Farsighted
“They
mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.'
You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know
what I mean”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson, Prom
“The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like
a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“I
feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl
reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on
me.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I’ve
always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to
love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me
irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Please…
Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t
completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly
describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re
there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world.
Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get
when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these
days.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I
wasn't aware that was how I felt, either, until it was out. And now that I've
said it like that, I'm not exactly sure it is how I feel. But this isn't a
piece of paper I can crumple up and throw away. they aren't words I can cross
out to start over. Now they're out, and I know they'll hang here, between us,
maybe forever.”
―
Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys
“I
thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking
little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”
―
Holly Black, Ironside
“If
it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same
subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would
understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.”
―
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
“We
like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth
writing about.”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice
“I’m
going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I
finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I
know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set
fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new
beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started
yet.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“I
think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year
old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly
inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like,
'what's plastic?'.”
―
John Green
“I
never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up
thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Renee
was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my
friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever
does with girls”
―
Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
“Everything
is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.”
―
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“He
liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he
did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were
dealing with another species of human being, in some cases a higher one, in
others a lower. He secretly admired the weak, pale, little girl and had picked
her to be his wife. That was still the only way he could think of a woman - as
a wife. He danced in a very chaste and proper manner, but he heard awful
stories about his pals, stories he didn't understand until later. They could
dance the waltz backwards around the room in a very indecent way, and they told
naughty stories about the girls.”
―
August Strindberg, The Son of a Servant
“This
is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.”
―
Elizabeth Berg, Joy School
“Lula,"
I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"
I
guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"
You
have to let your husband kiss you once you're married. And you have to kiss him
back."
No,"
she said.
Yes."
I nodded, as if I knew everything there was to know about husbands and wives
kissing. "That's what they do together."
Do
you have to?"
Oh,
absolutely. It's the law."
I
never heard of that law," she said dubiously.
It's
true, it's Texas law," I said.”
―
Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
“Chocolate
Love”
―
Nicholas Reardon, Love of Chocolate
