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The Nature of Jade QUOTES

The Nature of Jade QUOTES

1 " They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

2 " It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

3 " Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature - an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild, relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

4 " Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

5 " Your sibling, after all, is the only other person in the world who understands how fucked up your parents made you. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

6 " Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes.
No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

7 " Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

8 " Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

9 " I don't want her in my car." says Jenna.
I don't want her in my life." says Michael.
I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

10 " Ah. Falling in love is such a magical time." "We just met, Damian. I'm not in love." Damian laughs. "I am going to have you clean the stables today, since you are already so full of shit. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

11 " It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

12 " Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

13 " No, Mom. I said fine."
"It's just your tone."
Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

14 " I may be nervous," I say.
"Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant." Sebastian says. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

15 " Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

16 " Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

17 " She once led this secret uprising to switch the voice boxes of Barbies and G.I. Joes. When they hit the shelves, G.I. Joe said, 'Let's go shopping!' and Barbie said, 'The enemy must be overtaken.'
I laugh. "No way."
"Yes way. Sex-role stereotyping in children's toys, all that. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

18 " In the two months I had also dated Justin Fellowes, this guy in my Spanish class, though after three weeks we decided we should "see other people," which in my case was a joke, but it beat hearing him remark on everything I ate. 'I don't know why girls are always on a diet,' he'd say when I ordered a Diet Coke, and 'You should watch your starch intake' when I had a muffin. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

19 " Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks.
Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade.
I used to come every day, or, you know, when I could, I'd bring Bo after work. Or just myself."
At night sometimes. You'd climb the fence. You'd watch the stars. You'd tilt back your head and look at the sky.
You'd think it over, whatever it was. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade

20 " You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book. "

― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade