Favorite Quotes

"Enjoy the little things in life, tell corny jokes, be amused by simplicity... That's how we live."
-- my own quote, 5/19/2010

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The universe was created a long time ago. This made a lot of people mad and has been widely considered as a "bad move."
-- unknown origin

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"Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you."
-- Effie Kaligaris from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: The Third Summer Girls in Pants

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Murphy's Law:
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

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"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."
-- Frieda Norris

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Everything magically appears when your Mom Looks for it.

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"You have a big decision and it will not make itself."
-- from The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

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I am reading this book because I don't want to think about my life.
I believe it is what is known as escapism.

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"You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but you really don't have a choice?
Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you."
-- from The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

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"I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own."
-- Alina Starkov in Siege and Storm (The Grisha #2) by Leigh Bardugo

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"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Life's cruelest irony."
-- from Shampoo Planet by Douglas Doupland