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21 " You want my honest opinion?" she says.I've already heard too many, but she goes ahead:"LaVaughn, I like you for being uppity. That's partly why we're here. Right?""Huh?" I ask her."Here in this room we're obligated to be uppity.That's our purpose here. We're supposed to change.Those friends of yours can't appreciate you.They don't know how. "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff , True Believer (Make Lemonade, #2)
22 " In Biology Patrick and I were like two pencils in a box,parallel but not alive to each other,my guilty feelings stifling my common sense. "
23 " ambivalent. To feel two ways about the same thing,'Ambi-' from the Greek, meaning 'both.''valent,' from the Latin, meaning 'going.'Remember: Feeling ambivalentis a crucial step in the process of living thoughtfully.When we notice our ambivalence and examine it,then our minds can thrive. "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff , This Full House (Make Lemonade, #3)
24 " You know how you want something so muchand you're afraid of it too? "
25 " We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other. "
26 " And so I came on the discoverywith no warning.Religion must be for trusting.And trusting, what is that for?I figured it out: It helps you go onwhen you can't go on. "
27 " I tell him he's a good boy. He says he knows it."Good boy sure," he says. I want to dig down way far into his brain and find out some of his details.How does he know? What makes him so convinced? "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff , Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)