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1 " He shook his head, just looking at me. - " What?" I asked.- " Nothing" he said.- " Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. " Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: " I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, " I`m not beau-" - " You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman." - " Never seen it." - " Really?" he asked. " Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell." His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life. "
2 " If you can`t listen to people, they hardly will follow you. "
3 " You can`t change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales. "
― Katie McGarry , Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2)
4 " I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one. "
― Alexandra Bracken , Sparks Rise (The Darkest Minds #2.5)
5 " Leo got up and brushed himself off. " I hate that guy" . He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together." I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want to date me instead? You`re so lucky!" " Leo" Jason said " You`re weird "
6 " I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught "
― Sue Monk Kidd
