Contemporary Quotes

It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair that I’d stumbled across the kind of man I used to find irresistible, or that he’d managed to stare right inside my head to locate my weaknesses. The thrill of being wanted while pretending not to be interested was a game I’d played over and over during my youth. I’d thrived on it. I’d done more than my share of getting mixed up with men who were all ego and muscles, and Radleigh McCoy reminded me exactly why I’d given them up. Danger, the chase. It was never worth the pain in the end.Unfortunately, my body hadn’t got the memo yet.

~ Kyra Lennon

I shrugged uncomfortably, leaning my head against hers, almost forgetting Mr. Gardner’s presence as Mo and I fell into that sort of exclusionary, near-telepathic best-friends communion. She knew that I would argue that I wasn’t ashamed, but that I hadn’t quite figured out how to truly mean it when I held my head up high. My entire life, people had been telling me to keep it down and stop being an embarrassment. So, I was still in that “fake it ’til you make it” stage, hoping genuine pride would come if I pretended confidence long enough. For now, I was relying on bravado and a complete lack of give-a-fuck to carry me through.

~ Amelia C. Gormley

Ew. Can you not talk about my dad ogling people? Scarlett Johansson may be gorgeous, but still.”“It’ll be a challenge, but I think I can refrain from licking the screen,” Brendan deadpanned, placing the wine bottle on the coffee table next to the bowl of popcorn before settling into the chair where he’d been working on his computer ea

~ Amelia C. Gormley

Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot did what any normal fourteen-year-old girl would do. She started puking on purpose, every day after fifth period. Of course now, she does more than puke. But we don’t talk about that. Because real friends don’t judge each other for what they do to survive in hell.

~ Isobel Irons

His name feels like a secret, and now he's wearing it on his wrist. I want to know all about this girl who put it there. What she looks like. If she's got freckles, fair hair or dark, like his. If she's scrappy or etheral, funny or serious, scrape-kneed or ladylike. I know that she loves him, so I want to know everything else. But West doesn't want to share her with me. I shouldn't keep trying to scale these walls he puts up. I'm a terrible climber.

~ Robin York

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

~ Leslea Tash

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

~ Leslea Tash

See, the thing is, I had a little misunderstanding with Trent Gibson in Pre-Calculus earlier. I dropped my textbook on his face—accidentally, while we were discussing some…equations—and he thought I was trying to brain him. So of course, he narked to Shoemaker, and apparently accidents are grounds for disciplinary action these days.

~ Isobel Irons

Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.

~ Shane K. Morgan

Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers could do. And how long they would take to do it before they sent me over the edge. - Lacey

~ Victoria H. Smith

That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake

~ Victoria H. Smith

I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore?

~ Abigail Roux

Turns out I’m not so easily broken.

~ Melissa Cutler

My mouth only does one thing well, and talking’s not it.

~ Melissa Cutler

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

~ Melissa Cutler

I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start would be for you to stop pointing out how flawed he is and start looking for the good in him.

~ Melissa Cutler

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

~ Geoff Dyer

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

~ Rebecca Serle

What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?

~ Rebecca Serle

Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.

~ Sumit Agarwal

Everything has changed, and nothing has altered. Oh, what a fate.

~ A.h. Septimius

You know all the ways you can kill a girl?God, there are so many.

~ Courtney Summers

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

~ Don Delillo

Sometimes our balance has to be upset and our course reset in order to help us navigate to our final destination. This is my final destination and where I was meant to be.

~ Ella Dominguez

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

~ Alice Fulton

Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.So death for Edbut not for everyone.Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.Like,don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there.Just doesn't seen fair to me.

~ Sarah Crossan

The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

~ Courtney Maum

Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

~ Barney Norris

The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.

~ Barney Norris

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

~ Barney Norris

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

~ Barney Norris

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

~ Barney Norris

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

~ Barney Norris

From my new release, Cry for Me.This is Bryen talking.Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!

~ Toni Mariani

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

~ Barney Norris

Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.

~ Barney Norris

I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.

~ Dani René

It’s like your whole life you’ve been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catchesyou. And you realize that somehow you’ve caught her at the same time. And together, instead offalling, you might be able to fly.” The ghost went to the discarded clipping and stared down at thephoto, riveted. “She’s a beaut, isn’t she?”“Sure,” Alex said automatically, although there was nothing of Zoë’s sparkling allure in thephoto, only a hint of resemblance.

~ Lisa Kleypas

As for learning to wear high heels, no need to worry. I've got no tolerance for those dreadful things. If God wanted us girls tottering around like a bunch of drunken sailors, we'd have been born wearing stilts!

~ Jenny Lundquist

I have certainly heard of the Subtle Art of Shutting Up, but I can't say I've practiced it all that much. I greatly prefer the underappreciated genius of Speaking My Mind. I figure if someone doesn't like what I have to say, they shouldn't put their ears in close proximity to my mouth.

~ Jenny Lundquist