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21 " If you fail, you fail. At least you will have lived! A life without risk is a life without passion and love. And a life without those, is a life without soul. "
― Joanne Macgregor , Hushed
22 " If God wanted women to look natural, She wouldn’t have invented tweezers and silicone and mineralizing powder. "
23 " For God’s sake, will you stop answering my questions! They’re rhetorical — do you even know what that means? "
― Joanne Macgregor , The Law of Tall Girls
24 " Don’t judge me by the things I did minutes ago. I’ve changed since then,” she said in a wounded tone. “Besides, I’m your best friend, and he’s nobody to you. And you know what they say?” “I’m sure you’ll tell me.” “Sisters before misters,” she said as we entered the classroom and took our seats. “That is what they say, Peyton, sisters before misters.” “Right.” “It’s like ovaries before brovaries. It means you should share stuff with your girlfriends that you wouldn’t with guys.” “Uh-huh. "
25 " war makes traitors of us all. Traitors to our nation, to truth, to love and hope. To ourselves. "
― Joanne Macgregor , Refuse (Recoil Trilogy, #2)
26 " You would care a lot less about what people think of you, if you knew how seldom they did. "
27 " I don’t want anyone hurt. In any way, by anyone, and especially not by me. I’ve thought that by not using my deadly skill and by retreating from the fight, I was protecting the ones I cared about. But that’s not true. "
― Joanne Macgregor , Rebel (Recoil Trilogy, #3)
28 " She’s completely obsessed with the virus and keeping us safe. She would say losing some privacy and freedom in exchange for gaining security is a good trade. "
― Joanne Macgregor , Recoil (Recoil Trilogy #1)
29 " whatever the one side of the political field said, the other side disagreed with on principle. And vice versa. We couldn’t get anything done. "
30 " Fresh coffee in a French press, mugs of hot chocolate topped with teeny marshmallows, homemade snickerdoodles, and apple pie. "
31 " Y’all got me grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ a sweet ’tater. "
32 " When I am queen of the world, I’ll abolish the class structure and redress the inequities of capitalism. "
33 " Worried you’ll lose your nerve today and shoot like a blind Democrat? "
34 " No one can make you feel embarrassed without your cooperation. So you’ve got to have a sense of humor about this, or pretend you do. Laugh along with the jokes, smile at the envy. "
35 " I wish there was such a thing as a pain-transplant. "
― Joanne Macgregor , Scarred
36 " Some things can't be changed, can't be taken back. "
37 " Things she had never told me about herself, I would never now know. "
38 " borage flowers, "
39 " Not a princess,” I said. “A queen. "
40 " Iwas good at keeping secrets. I had to be. I’d learned how to hide things, how to prevent anybody finding out the truth. And I’d had loads of practice concealing what I felt, at hiding the real me. Turns out this was a good thing, because I was still disguising how I felt about the boy playing Romero to my Juliet. "