Quotes of: Nice-girl Keyword

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

Why is every mom's concern about sex? There are more important things in life, like school, careers, poetry, books, ice cream, or learning how to make the perfect chocolate cake. It's so damn frustrating.

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know more about the beast who'd chewed their lives and spat the remnants out.

The Girl from Snowy River

Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky -- usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins

The Girl with No Shadow

Maybe that’s what makes it so hard. When you spend years thinking and dreaming about someone and have them fall back into your life? Sounds like fate to me.

Good Girls Don't Date Rock Stars

At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

We are drawn to repetition. We can watch the tide rolling for hours into shore. The clouds skittering across the sky. We can listen to the pulsing beat of bongo drums and are drawn magnetically to the slap, slap, slap of a girl being chastised. The h...

Girl Trade

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.

The Girl of Fire and Thorns

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

The Girl on the Train

I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I don't understand how anyone does it - there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that, or look around for something to distract you.

The Girl on the Train