A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.
– Junot Daz
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- But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,’ he wrote back, ‘This is my home. – Junot Daz
- You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don’t find every day. – Junot Daz
- I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. – Junot Daz
- My heart is beating like it’s lonely, like there’s nothing else inside of me. – Junot Daz
- She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all. – Junot Daz
- It’s just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it. – Junot Daz
- Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. – Junot Daz
- That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn’t do school anymore. Something inside wouldn’t let me. – Junot Daz
- You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There’s a lot out there. – Junot Daz
- I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn’t think it’s cursed? – Junot Daz
- Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. – Junot Daz
- if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. – Junot Daz
- And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows. – Junot Daz
- Mother????ers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. – Junot Daz
- Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us. – Isaac Asimov
- This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- My strength is my pride. My pride is my heart. And my heart will always be mine and mine alone. – Imania Margria
- May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up. – James C Dobson
- I’m never growing up, I’ll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations. – Rhiannon McGavin
- Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser. – Stephen Richards
- Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger. – Debasish Mridha
- The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better — it is just turning around as usual. – Finley Peter Dunne
- Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. – Dejan Stojanovic
- If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular-”all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you’ve been growing like wildfire. – Phoebe Stone
- Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying. – Raven Moore
- I can never -˜un-love’ you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of your secrets are now mine to keep. – Marina Simcoe
- What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
- You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
- Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
- In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. – Harrison Scott Key
- A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight. – Sue Miller
- Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. – George RR Martin
- Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them. – SA Tawks
- Peace above all, even above love. – Laure Lacornette
- The higher you rise above your fears the higher you will rise above your peers. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality. – MR Graham
- And what’s above all… above us… Who is God!?- Who are the aliens… who are the people which ignore us!? – Deyth Banger