Quotes of: Girl-next-door Keyword

Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.

Eight Girls Taking Pictures

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.

Elephant Girl: A Human Story

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand th...

First Kill

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures

The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. There was no doubt about it. This was a sound audibl...

The Girl I Left Behind

-You have what they call the complete package, Adders. -What do you know about my package? -No that package, you idiot! You are the complete package! I wasn't talking about what's in your trousers!

The Girl Before Eve

No," he said, and he snapped his fingers. "You'll come work for me at K----. And be a real associate editor." I said, "I could bring you up on charges for that." "What?" "Work harassment in the sexual place.

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

In a flash of anger, Midas grabbed a sod of earth and hurled it at the water, which broke into a hundred chained circles. Picturing Ida like the body in the bog made his heart seem to wilt and blow away. His face screwed through expressions.

The Girl With Glass Feet

Every part of me pulses with electric energy. Every synapse is firing, every part of me is alert, awake, and what I think is that this, this feeling, this is real. This feeling of being absolutely alive, absolutely in this moment, this is as real as ...

The Girls' Global Guide to Guys

I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gone Girl

In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly from my back and left somewhere on the ground.

Getting the Girl

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for?

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest