Mass Quotes #5
A lot of my current quotes in my notebook come from Paper Towns by John Green. But I read an ARC. The book does not come out until October and I don’t want to put any spoilers out there. So I’ll be nice and wait, impatiently. Fortunately for you though I have also been reading the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books and have plenty of quotes to share from those. But, as always, spoilers may be ahead, so continue with caution.
Bailey thought. “I’m afraid of time,” she answered. She was brave, unflinching in the big Cyclops eye of the camera. There was nothing prissy or self-conscious about Bailey. “I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time,” she clarified, “Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. I’m afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies.”
-Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if your friend was possibly dying.
Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
-Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
-E.L. Doctorow
“Like I said, I’m me…and you’re you. Who’s this or that doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about what Asuma said. Just be yourself.”
-Shikamaru, Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto 174
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
-Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
She thought about Mr. Kaligaris and all his theories about protecting his mother. Yes, smelling Greek food made Valia sad. He was right about that. And being held by another human seemed to make her sad too. But sometimes, Carmen knew, being sad was what you had to do.
-Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
-Norman Mailer
The real lesson embodied in Katherine’s three-year-old frame was opposite: Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
Flexing her feet under the covers, Tibby thought of a corollary to this lesson: If you don’t try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
-Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Please let this be real, she thought wistfully. And if it’s not, let me just stay here anyway.
-Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn’t going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn’t going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
Release me she begged, silently of her elephant.
She needed to be free of him. She needed to get on with her life. Maybe even fall in love again.
-Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
