Jemicia Olivia Quotes & Sayings

Do you have to leave?" she whispered, her voice filled with exhaustion. "I have to," I said, combing my hand through her hair. "Don't you like it here?" "I do, but all of my stuff is there," I said. "So bring it here," she argued. "You can put it in my closet. — Claire Contreras

Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. — Bob Goff

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts. — Robert Lynn Asprin

Do you have any idea what the typical response is whenever I do give someone a glimpse of my life?"
Gideon paused, as if he waited for her to answer.
And Monroe hesitated. Yes. She did know. She knew because it was the same response she would get it she chose to let down her own guard. Hell, it was practically the same response Miles had given the night she had told him the unadulterated truth of her past. She shook her head again.
"Standard response," he said. "I swear to God. First thing out of their mouth's is: 'Wow. It's shocking you're so normal.' What the fuck? Do I have to be damaged for my past to make sense? And what the hell is normal anyway? And does white bread America have dibs on it?"
Gideon stopped talking, crossed his arms, and the look on his face said he regretted saying as much as he had. — Taylor Stevens

One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts. — Robert K. Tanenbaum

All I can think is: His head is gone and I don't know how to merge with the Book. — Karen Marie Moning

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to be well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. — Fred Allen

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. — Virginia Cary Hudson

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource. — Mason Cooley

It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy. — Sibel Kekilli

"And all the bars at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring set Ajar before the soul. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

High School is the place where poetry goes to die. — Billy Collins

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart. — Paul Haggis

I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have all the right equipment to make a human being together. — Guy Branum