Shldq Quotes & Sayings

I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I will have a dead brother and it will be me instead of you who suffers.
Justin thought of his brother on that warm summer day, standing up on the windowsill holding both their futures, light and changeable as air, in his outstretched arms.
Of course, Justin thought, I'm part of his fate just as he's part of mine. I hadn't considered it from his point of view. Or from the point of view of the universe, either. It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second. A butterfly flaps its wings in Africa and my brother in Luton thinks he can fly.
The child nodded. A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen. — Meg Rosoff

They bided their time. They agreed: They would do it the first day of school, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in order to "intensify Mayor Sokolich's punishment. — Anonymous

I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again. — Charlaine Harris

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose. — Joely Fisher

Neuroscientists have a biological explanation for why those downward negative-thought spirals happen in the first place. MRIs have shown that every time people think angry thoughts or imagine worst-case scenarios, they send a surge of blood flowing into the brain regions associated with depression and anger - which refuels their depression and anger in a destructive feedback loop. — Karen Salmansohn

It isn't knowledge that's making trouble, but the uses it's put to. — Kurt Vonnegut

She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. — Markus Zusak

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing. — Catherine Ponder

History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. — Kami Garcia