Young Jane Young
Gabrielle Zevin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.”
“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?”
“Why are you so quiet?” he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.”
“They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.”
“...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.”
“Anticipating the worst doesn’t provide insurance from the worst happening,” Mimmy says.”
“The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don’t make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you’re always good, the story will be very short.”
“My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn’t had enough time to get good again.”
“You are not a beautiful girl, and even if you were, you know that is not related to how much sex a person has. Plenty of ugly people have sex. Plenty of ordinary people have sex. Plenty of beautiful people spend their nights alone.”
“Because the things we don’t have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don’t have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.”
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Book Keywords:
regret, loss, sadness, fortitude, self-confidence, personality, complex, dreams, shame, desire
