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1 " The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it. "
― John Goode , Taking Chances (Tales from Foster High, #5)
2 " I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do know the moment I began to feel fixed. It was the day the green eyed boy fell in love with me. "
― John Goode , Maybe With a Chance of Certainty (Tales from Foster High, #1)
3 " We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes those stories so desirable to the general population. They want to believe that karma works and the bad guys are always defeated in the end. But in a world where no one thinks they are the bad guy and everyone plays the victim, it is harder and harder to find the black and the white of a situation. We are all the hero, and we are all the monster. "
4 " I mean honestly, who just sits around in a house with a bunch of short guys waiting for their prince to come? So your mom is a bitch and wants to kill you because her mirror told her to? Cry me a river why don't you? Your big plan is sitting around cleaning house waiting for the other shoe to drop? And speaking of shoes, everyone has been picked on by mean girls. You do not wait for some old lady to pop in and transmogrify some innocent rodents just so you can sneak in to a dance under false pretenses. And let's say you do sneak in. For the love of all that is holy take your mask off and look the guy in the face and say. “Hi, I'm Cindy from down the street, I have this thing at midnight. Can we do coffee later?” This nonsense with a shoe and searching the entire village for one girl, it's crap. "
5 " My parents were high school sweethearts, which is a term that means “too stupid to use a condom. "
― John Goode , Tales From Foster High (Tales from Foster High, #1)
6 " Home is the prison you always return to. "
― John Goode
7 " If you live your life scared of what other people think, then you will always be miserable. "
8 " Once upon a time there was a boy who didn’t get to fall in love. The End. "
9 " Behind every strong man is a scared little boy wanting people to tell him it’s going to be okay. Remember that and men will no longer seem as stupid as you think they are. "
10 " He came off so lost, which of course hit all my buttons because who doesn’t dream of finding an incredibly hot boy and fixing him? Straight guys may have cars and gadgets, but girls and gay boys, we like to fix broken boys. "
― John Goode , Distant Rumblings (Lords of Arcadia, #1)
11 " I had everything before I met you." he said, unable to make eye contact with me."Funny" I said with more sadness than anger in my voice. "I didn't have anything before I met you. "
12 " There is no happily ever after. There is just not miserable for now. "
13 " I swore to myself I would never be that guy, the guy who loses his shit for the first pretty face he sees. And yet my shit was truly lost. "
14 " So it's possible I might be dating Batman. "
― John Goode , Raise Your Glass (Tales from Foster High, #3)
15 " Okay, then, if you're sure," he said again and I almost blurted, "I'd consider hitting my mother in the back of the head with a snow shovel if kissing you was in the cards." But I though that would come off as needy. "
― John Goode , The Boy Behind the Red Door
16 " Love is the Novocaine that numbs the ache, the fizz that keeps the drink fresh, it is the sore on the top of your mouth you can't ignore and the prize at the bottom of the box that is worth nothing, yet makes you eat the whole box. Love is what love is and there is nothing else like it.Except maybe heroin. "
17 " I didn’t want to be a victim, some princess locked away in a tower, waiting to be saved. I wanted to be the hero of my story; I didn’t need to be saved. At least I didn’t want to be. "
18 " I watch Doctor Who, bitch. "
― John Goode , The Unseen Tempest (Lords of Arcadia, #3)
19 " Evil is simply the word for what someone else won't do. "
20 " Like my own personal sun, he was not only too radiant to look at directly, I also found myself more and more drawn into his orbit with each minute. "
