Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.
A painting is more than the sum of its parts.
A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you’re young. But you can’t let money erode your principles or you’ll wind up with nothing.
Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
There’s nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
He tells us that life isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about what you do about what happens to you.
There’s no winning arguments with your parents.
I’d scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I’d yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce.
I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him.
You never forget your first love.
Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn’t stop someone’s best and brightest blessing! Surely not!
But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn’t strong enough yet to be walked on.
Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don’t see them.
Don’t sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don’t understand; get to know them.
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don’t watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
As much as thinking this upsets me, I’m starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.
Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I’ve had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace.