It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder�...
I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys...
But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.
Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.
I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.
Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make...
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
