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  Party Quotes - Savor every stolen second, Cling to every moment, until it's gone   “Here," she says, pressing the pastry box into his hands. "Enjoy the party." Henry's smile falls. His forehead rucks up like a carpet. "Why don't you come with me?" And she doesn't know how to say I can't when there is no explaining why, when she was ready to spend all night with him. So she says, "I shouldn't," and he says, "Please," and she knows it is such a terrible idea, that she cannot hold the secret of her curse aloft over so many heads, knows she cannot keep him to herself, that this is all a game of borrowed time. But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it's gone. So she says yes.” ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue   “I thought...

  Party Quotes - Happiness means happy-in-less   “While I was getting boogers wiped in my hair during Biology, he was being spit on in Social Studies. A common story. But there was a day, a sunny day in May, I’m sure, when at exactly 2 P.M., we both looked out of the window of our different schools and … What?   We didn’t wish—wishes are wasted … We didn’t hope—because our future was inevitable … And we didn’t pray—we were on our own. So we sent out energy bullets: “This is for New York.” “This is for when I get there.” Little pockets of energy, to be saved and accumulated and used upon arrival.   I was so scared it was all going to be gone by the time I got there. Ninth grade, tenth grade—can’t this thing go any faster?   In the magazine, there were funny people with funny names like John Sex, who had wild white hair and a snake!—and didn’t that just open up a kaleidoscope of new possibilities? And how long the years are—endless! A...

  Party Quotes - Miss the flight. Miss the boat. Miss the class. Miss the party. But, never ever miss your dream   “Never mind,' Fran said. Her father was amazingly broad-minded, but an AC/DC fan he was not.” ― Stephen King, The Stand   “I play the trombone like it’s a tombstone. I perform at funerals or parties, and both have the exact same playlist and vibe. I also rent duck costumes, but they do not come with swimming instructions.” ― Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight   “I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited.” ― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out   “Miss the flight. Miss the boat. Miss the class. Miss the party. But, never ever miss your dream.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary   “To your party I'll bring my World-Famous Leftover Duck Meatloaf. It's from 1999, and the only reason I have...

  Party Quotes - Did you know you can rent bulls?   “The more bleach in the bedsheets, the greater Chastity's impulse to roll around in them. A party would be thrown, she decided, the kind that would tell a small story in the contents of the dustpan the next morning. Detached sequins and mint leaves muddled by high heels, shrimp tales mixed in with a few shards of broken glass, a crust of bread. She rolled in her bleached sheets until they wrapped around her like a storm, and she fell asleep in the eye of it.” ― Amelia Gray, AM/PM   “Really, nobody was there?” I asked. “Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.” ― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs   “The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.” ― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs   “I always think the opening moments of ...

  Party Quotes - Finally! You're here!   “Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?” ― Nigel Slater   “I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth   “If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?” ― Demi Lovato   “Finally! You're here!" Uh....Do I know you?" Well, no....But you're here, all the same...” ― Lynn Weingarten, Wherever Nina Lies   “I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.” ― Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics   “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the pos...