Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more...
Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.
I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset.
How can my ankles and arms be obscene?
HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.
Evie’s eyes widened. More interesting than dope and sorcery?
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
Yeah, but what about the ritual of getting your ticket and your snacks, finding the perfect seat, I countered. All those strangers watching the movie with you, they change how you see it, you know? Yo...
With a satisfied groan, Sam leaned back against his chair, his hands on his protruding gut. Ling. How would your mother feel about a Jewish son-in-law?
What place lay beyond the reach of evil?
What I can’t figure out is why you gotta make yourself crackers trying to be somebody you can’t ever be instead of just letting yourself be the one and only Evie O’Neill.
We’ve the right to dream, and that, I suppose, is the magic’s greatest power: the notion that we can pick possibility from the trees like ripe fruit.
There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the society itself? They reap its rewards without experien...
The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make...
The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
Tenía que reconocérselo, la muchacha tenía agallas. Le gustaban las chicas con agallas. Siempre daban problemas. Y a Sam le gustaban los problemas incluso más que las agallas.
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.