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Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4) QUOTES

Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4) QUOTES

81 " we are all puzzle pieces, and no matter our shape, color, size, or level of neurocognitive diversity, there is another puzzle piece out there in the world, waiting to click with our own. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

82 " But doesn’t the new information change the history? "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

83 " Holy Moly Moses. Are youserious?”

Shelly grinned at me. “Did you just say, Holy Moly Moses?”

“I did, and I meant every word of it.”

“I love how you speak.”

“How do I speak?”

“Adorable. Funny.Entertaining.”

“Just wait ’til I tell you my joke about the fishing pole. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

84 " But the way Roscoe spoke sometimes, he acted like his poop didn’t smell even though he was just a poor boy from backwoods Tennessee, the youngest son of a con man and a librarian. He’s "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

85 " Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ​— ​Aristotle "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

86 " All people are broken, Shelly. No one is perfect. Some seek help. Some don’t. But no one is ever fixed by another person. We can only work on ourselves. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

87 " Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” ​— ​George Orwell, 1984 "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

88 " before I could speak. “It’s a book on how to do kintsugi. It’s a Japanese method of fixing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

89 " She watched me. I watched her. Kissing, touching, and cherishing each other, we made love. And it was essential. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

90 " Glancing around the bar, half wondering if this was an elaborate prank, I searched my head for the right response to her request.

Uh, yeah.

Yes.

Hell. Yes.

How about right now?

Wait a minute . . . wrong head "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

91 " Finally, after a tense moment, he stepped back and grabbed his beer. “Fine. I was finished with her anyway.” His eyes flickered over  my shoulder to Shelly.

I tensed, because if I was reading Duke right, then an insult was on the tip of his tongue, and not a clever one either. One of the obscene variety. And if he said it, then I was going to have to punch him.

What? Why? Why do you have to punch him?

Because.

Not a good reason.

You’d do it for anyone.

No. I’m not sure that isstrictly true.

For Shelly.

You are out of your damn mind. She’s not yours, you’renot hers.

Maybe . . . she could be?

Again, out of your damn mind. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

92 " You and I have discussed deserving at great length. And you agreed you would stop deciding what people deserve. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

93 " him an array of irritated glares from all present. I loved my youngest brother, but he was a hipster of the worst sort, having too many opinions about shit that didn’t matter. Like red wine. And coffee. And the French pronunciation of French words. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

94 " Cletus had labeled the shredder in the upstairs office suggestion box a year ago when Duane had suggested half days on Fridays. “What "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

95 " Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ​— ​Isaac Asimov "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

96 " turn green, and the silver black. Absentmindedly, I said, “Unless they’re polished, their colors will fade.” “Like a person.” “Pardon?” I returned my gaze to her profile. “People need to be polished, to be stroked, touched,” her tone was abstract, “and when they’re not polished, their colors fade. They fade, they change, warp, become something different. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

97 " My momma always said you should meet a guest in shoes, family in socks, and friends in bare feet. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

98 " Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

99 " What I saw were snapshots of my past. I saw having somebody, the someone I never had to explain shit to, my someone who just knew. He knew it all. And I also saw someone who had needed me, someone I'd cared for and took care of, from birth to now.

And then I saw the future, and him leaving and nothing ever being the same. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)

100 " We can either chose to continue in ignorance, sticking to the yellow brick road of simplicity, or educate ourselves and unlock a spectrum of possibility. "

― Penny Reid , Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)