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Sometimes family is just not what you were born into.
— Chelesbells
Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what she’d made herself out to be — a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rerun this week. The truth was in the exercise tape she didn’t have time to unwrap, let alone exercise to; the truth was her hairy legs and ugly underwear. Most of all, the truth was her sister, her gorgeous, messed-up, fantastically unhappy and astoundingly irresponsible sister.
— Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes
I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed me down. It told me that she would always be there for me.
— Kaimana Wolff, La Chiripa
However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used to dominate everyday existence, at a time when families sat around the fire of an evening and ate every meal together. That's no longer true. Families today are often loose constellations. Contact is intermittent and rushed. everyone has their own space. Activity is scattered all around town, not confined to the home. Cars have made everyone mobile, but central heating may be the most powerful force in shaping modern society.
— Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like one’s tongue pointlessly finds a mouth sore over and over again, half to see if it was still there, half to see if it still hurt.
— Genevieve Dewey, Second of All
As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and insideMyself. My mother always taught us to live free even when confined, meaning “never let anyone break you down physically or mentally.” Since my living environment was so heavily impacted with violence and illegal activity I found myself adapting to social norms that later in my adult life would negatively affect me. For example, certain physical reactions that were acceptable, as a child would give you a reputation on the street as tough guy, don’t mess with him. The same mentality later in life, as a man would label you as a predator of some sort and a woman abuser. It was hard to understand the true value of a man and all his worth and everything he is capable of achieving, when you’re surrounded by pimps, hustlers and con men that all may make more money than the men with trade jobs and have more of an appealing lifestyle for the short- term progress.
— Rubin Scott
What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. "What happened to him?"Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. "Nice Lebanese boy.""Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your cousin Farouq, Great Uncle Ziad, Auntie Seena and Jimmy's son Jalal," Aunt Jean cuts in disapprovingly."Dead, dead, dead, and in jail.
— Diana Abu-Jaber, The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
It ain't locked, till it's checked!
— Angelo N. Dallas
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Hades," Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance." "I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glanced at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certainupstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on—it is that you were a TERRIBLE father.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
— Alexandra Ivy, The Real Werewives of Vampire County
My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Family… that was my older sister Tiffany as well. My emotional spectrum for her covered everything from “my dearest sister, foundation of my heart and soul” up to “you fucking bitch, go and get run over by a train, please”. We had quite a normal sibling relationship, I assume.
— Hasimir Fenrig, Opposites Attract
It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child’s desire to feel that a parent actually likes them, as love itself is so automatic and preprogrammed in a parent that it isn’t a very good test of whatever it is that the typical child feels so anxious to pass the test of
— David Foster Wallace
They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!
— Neil Leckman
Anyway, it was Oscar who called me to remind me that our nephew, Lydia's son Garnett, was turning eleven years old. Fuck my life. I hated that kid. He smelled like asparagus, and he sweated way too much for a healthy child; but then Garnett, given his propensity for biting teachers and catching chipmunks in the backyard only to bury them alive, was no normal kid. He was a case study for sociopathic behavior in the making. A walking, talking, farting, sweaty, odorous, chipmunk-burying cry for help.
— Richard J.  O'Brien
I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.
— Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree
Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arses, for they shall not sicken. Blessed are those who boil water, for they shall be called saviors of mankind.
— Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross
For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.
— Alan Cohen
Break the rules and make up your own rules.
— Elle Meyer, Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life
Love heals the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When the dust settles, you will have known that it was always about ageing well, not just about how fit and strong you were when young... Step back, have a look and never lose sight of the bigger picture!
— Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale
Pharmaceutical quick fixes are not what you need, you must face up to your symptoms and acknowledge this is not just random victimisation. Every symptom has its reasons.
— Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
Invalid food choices lead to invalid people.
— Mango Wodzak
There are always unfavourable consequences to consuming unnatural foods.
— Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
The question isn't why organic food is so darned expensive, it's really about why chemically sprayed, poisoned food is so cheap.
— Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
Never miss day without a walk.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most hidden secret to the Law of Attraction is frequency and to Medicine is oxygen.
— Robin Sacredfire
Whoever walks daily shall know the worth of walking.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Maintaining a Healthy life is creative for long for long life.
— Rp
One disease, long life; no disease, short life.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides.
— Rory Freedman, Skinny Bitch
Eat Chew Live' is not like other diet or weight loss books. There are no programs to follow, menus to cook, or products to buy, this book is about respecting how your body works.
— John M. Poothullil, Eat, Chew, Live: 4 Revolutionary Ideas to Prevent Diabetes, Lose Weight and Enjoy Food
We are the totality of what we consume, in every way possible.
— Sue Ziang, Young Mind Young Body: Transformational Approach to Rejuvenating Youth and Vitality
Eat good food, keep moving, and let your body take care of the rest.
— Stephen Le, 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
You can’t always eat perfectly clean. You can’t always control the quality of your food sources. You can’t always resist temptation—and who'd want to?! And you certainly can’t diet forever—we’ve tried and failed... But YOU CAN control the emotional quality and pleasure content you bring to every meal. You are what and HOW you eat. Change your brain and you will change your diet, body & whole life!
— Melissa Milne, The Naughty Diet: The 10-Step Plan to Eat and Cheat Your Way to the Body You Want
Your top priority needs to be—first and foremost—eating fresh, chemical-free produce and keeping your busy family healthy.
— Amy Stross, The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People
A Healthy Immune system equals A Healthy body
— Kellie Alderton, Waking Up from MS: My Journey to Health, Healing, and Living Symptom Free
If you work out, you will loss weight.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Master your fears or your fear will master your mind,Control your mind or you mind will control your body,Shape your body or your body will shape your life,Live your life the way you want or live your life the way you have to.
— Sujish Kandampully
The way out of a dead end is to go back the way you came in…
— Evangelos Zoumbaneas, Thin positive : Μυστικά ελέγχου της πείνας και της διατροφής
Respect your body, and look forward to feeling healthy and clean. Your body deserves better than laboratory-made sweetness.
— Damon Gameau
We can change our rewards. It just takes a shift in out thought patterns and being gentle and patient with ourselves.
— Damon Gameau, That Sugar Book
To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it—anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Meditation is my Medication.
— Beta Metani' Marashi
Balance your body for better results. A balanced body improves electrical communication to muscles and gets you stronger, faster.
— Josh Bezoni
What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.
— Glenda Radores
Veganism is a brilliant approach for elevating human consciousness and avoiding the energy of death and degeneration associated with killing animals for food, which enters us when we eat their flesh and blood.
— Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
First Step To Lose Weight.....Get and Stay ACTIVE!
— Josheel Dole
A healthy nation is measured by its level of reconciliation. ‎Reconciliation‬ between people with God and people among themselves!
— Paul Gitwaza
Remember this: You are the expert of your body.
— Sarah Hackley, Finding Happiness with Migraines: a Do It Yourself Guide, a min-e-bookTM
By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.
— Sarah Hackley, Finding Happiness with Migraines: a Do It Yourself Guide, a min-e-bookTM
No matter what stage of illness we are in, whether we’ve just been diagnosed or we have lived with chronic migraines for decades, there are adjustments we can make to increase joy in our lives and to live more fully.
— Sarah Hackley, Finding Happiness with Migraines: a Do It Yourself Guide, a min-e-bookTM
I am a vegan because I don't want to support the cruel industry that goes on on farms everyday.
— Zoe Rosenberg
It's never too late to start eating right.
— Elle Meyer, Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life
Healthy food-healthy life
— Lailah GiftyAkita
I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek
— Azuka Onwuka
I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself against vaccination loses caste. Tremendous pecuniary interests too have grown around vaccination.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You can become just as hooked on sugar as on drugs, tobacco or alcohol. The sugar affects the same areas in your brain.
— Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir, 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
No matter how much exercise or energy healing I do how many soothing restorative walks I take through the woods, how many heads of raw kale I juice or don't...there is no inoculation against illness. No guarantees, no way to wrestle life under control. There are merely best attempts. But surrendering the false hope that there is a single way to make everything Just So might just be the best strategy of all.
— Gillian Deacon, Naked Imperfection: A Memoir
Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make yourself whole again.
— Farnoosh Brock, The Healthy Juicer's Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long
Weight Loss Versus Health Gain:"Forget the idea of 'losing' anything. Let that happen organically. Instead, focus only on adding the healthy habit of juicing into your system. Think only about the healthy changes you are integrating into your body and not so much about taking anything away. Now, this is more empowering position in which you put yourself. You are in charge of the adding, but you have no control of the subtracting. Let the weight loss be a natural result of the changes that you make and think in terms of adding health into your system instead. Juicing is one such addition.
— Farnoosh Brock, The Healthy Juicer's Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long
I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 planning for someday and then quietly, without you ever noticing, someday today. And then someday yesterday. And this is your life.
— Brooke Davies
There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.
— E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver
All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.
— Magenta Periwinkle, Cutting Class
Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?""Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day
I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?
— Elizabeth Berg, Joy School
As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
What is your definition of skank?' I ask.'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.
— Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
I'm really too young to go out into the world alone," he thought as he lay down
— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears
— Chamera Sampson
…you know how hard it is to be utterly, drop dead gorgeous," she said, twirling that shiny instrument of torture she liked to call her hair.
— Tai, Cupid's Academy: The Miseducation of Mergatroyd, Love god in Training
What’s the biggest problem facing teenagers today? Ourselves. We’re a generation of lazy underachievers who need to learn that hard work pays off. What’s your town known for? Cow manure! Hold for laughs... Actually Irondale is the setting of Fannie Flagg’s famous novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Why’d you enter the Junior Miss Birmingham pageant? To win... to go to State... then Nationals... maybe get the hell out of Alabama.
— Nadria Tucker, The Heaviest Corner on Earth
There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.
— Lisa Michaels, Split: A Counterculture Childhood
What you are about to read are based on true events. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.
— Melissa M. Futrell
There are many of us who live alongside others, less fortunate, watching them go through everyday suffering for one reason or another, and weâ€™re not moving even our little finger to help them. Itâ€™s in human nature, unfortunately: for the most part, the only people we genuinely care about are ourselves. However, once in a while we encounter different species, different kind of human beings among us: full of compassion, willing and wanting to help, and doing so with joy and happiness. Those are a rarity. But you know what, my dear? Being one of them is not a special calling- itâ€™s a choice. So what will you choose, huh?
— Yoleen Valai, The Rebirth of Francesca
Whatâ€™s going on?â€� Ingrid asked. â€œListen, nothing bad today, please.â€� She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. â€œIâ€™m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.â€� Ingrid busted out with a laugh. â€œI wouldnâ€™t call her that,â€� she said. â€œThatâ€™s a little harsh, isnâ€™t it?â€� She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. â€œWhat did the brat do this time?â€� She set her glass down.
— Taylor Keys, Double Bubble Boil and Trouble
Relationships take work. It isnâ€™t true love if things go smoothly.
— S.R. Crawford, No Secrets: Remastered
He stares at meâ€”taking me inâ€”with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.
— Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris
A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the mediaâ€™s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they donâ€™t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.
— Erica Sehyun Song
You are a blue rose, Letti. Itâ€™s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you. The blue rose is lonely, lost and awaits someone special to believe in them; the same feeling I got from you the day we met. Blue roses are incomprehensible and mysterious. And so are you.
— S.R. Crawford, No Secrets: Remastered
But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Why did it have to be such a shameful secret? Hadnâ€™t I been potty-trained and taught to chew with my mouth closed? So what was the freaking big deal about having sex? Wasnâ€™t it essential to the survival of our darn, hypocritical species?
— Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time
There is nothing harder than telling your own mother youâ€™re everything she hoped you were not.
— Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time
There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.
— Tim Federle, The Great American Whatever
It’s not an ordinary cash wash, Jake,” Jean smiled. “C’est très spécial... et il a un secret!”“I understood special and secret,” Jake said. “That’s about it.
— Zechariah Barrett, Project Ordine
It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.
— Rom Amor
You're crazy,' I say.'Aye,' Logan says. 'Crazy about you.
— Cindy Miles, Forevermore
Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun,' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.
— Cindy Miles, Forevermore
I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.
— I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above
He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.
— Cate Cameron, Center Ice
I’m not the damsel in distress. I’m the villain. It’s only a matter of time before he realizes this.
— Stacey Trombley, Naked
Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're living.
— Val  Richards, Eleventh Elementum
sometimes you need to make a mess.
— Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
But that was last year,” I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days beforeHalloween. “I’m serious, you know how people are. They forget about things.”“Oh, really?” Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. “Hey, Julia, what’s up?How are things?”“Slut,” Julia responded, and kept walking.Roux just looked back at me knowingly. “You were saying?
— Robin Benway, Also Known As
And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
I hated puberty. It had been that horrible stage from child hood, to pre teen, and my stage from ugly, to ugly with menstrual cramps.
— Melissa Grijalva
I hoped for a miracle, but most of all, I hoped for someone to truly understand what I was going through.I can't make you live longer, I can't stop you from hurting but I can give you one wish as someone did for me. My wish helped me find purpose, faith, and courage. Friendship reaches beyond time and the true miracle is in giving, not recieving.
— Lurlene McDaniel, One Last Wish
as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.
— Cassandra Clare
It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
And if anyone has trouble understanding that, well, they can kiss my ass.
— Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back....Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.
— William Ritter, Jackaby
It's entirely possible to get to know someone without actually seeing them in person. In fact, it's better like that because none of the superficial stuff gets in the way. You really get to know a person. And it's easier to express yourself when you're writing things down. At least it is for me. I like to order my thoughts, and delete them if they don't make any sense. You can't do that in real life.
— Cat Clarke, A Kiss in the Dark
This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know," said Ray. "My mums a plumber.
— David Bischoff
I'm really too young to go out into the world alone," he thought as he lay down.
— E.B. White
She, of all people, knew the sacred trust that word -- "librarian" -- implied. Because a librarian was supposed to to be a spiritual, intellectual mentor who kept your secrets and didn't give you a funny look when you checked out a book on the care and feeding of pythons...A librarian opened up new doors for you, intellectually, too, without shoving you through them.A librarian was important.
— Beth Fantaskey, Buzz Kill
Everybody should have a librarian.
— Beth Fantaskey, Buzz Kill
Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.
— Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.
— David Handler, The Boy Who Never Grew Up
Do you ... still believe?''Our very presence here, a Polynesian goddess sitting next to a Zulu thunder god, listening to the song of a Greek siren, should be proof enough that religions can and do coexist.' He looked back at the cross over the entryway. 'And I still do not know.
— Karsten Knight, Wildefire
Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
— Brook Tesla
In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader.
— Carl M. Tomlinson, Essentials of Young Adult Literature
It’s normal to like guys who seem to like you; it’s normal to want to be loved.”Kami raised her eyebrows. “I’m sixteen,” she said. “I’m not looking for love.”“Oh,” said Liz. “Uh, what are you looking for?”“Cheap thrills, mostly,” said Kami.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.
— Cindi Madsen, Cipher
You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.
— Teresa Lo, Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
— Bernard M. Baruch
Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!
— Raven
Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good.
— Sarah Dessen
A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell
— Cat Spydell, The Time Traveler's Apprentice at Hollywood High
I loved his enormous aptitude for compassion, adoration and respect. That was his way of showing love. He lacked the capacity for wickedness, and that caressed my belief that he might just be an angel. My angel.
— S.G. Holster, Thirty Seconds to Die
Kayn began to speak as if she were reading his obituary. “I can see the paper now
—  it would read something like this
Do either of you even play baseball?
— Jeff Davis
Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!
— Neal Shusterman
Seconds seem like a life time when the life you lived is slowly drained out of you by those who care not what you felt, hoped, or dreamed. When the darkness comes it is all consuming, there is no light and there is no pain. It is the never ending loss of hope that now consumes me as I die in his arms.
— Cassandra Giovanni, Walking in the Shadows
The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of its existence), felt no particular connection to the land, its people, its structures, or its history. As such, they had no inclination to defend its invisible borders from declared enemies within or without. They desired only escape from this small village, which each viewed as an existential prison built upon the antiquated expectations of their parents and their parents’ parents. And because of their invisible bondage, the young of this town were possessed by a quiet rage. But this rage laid torpid and inert within them, dulled to sleep by the tired repetition of nothing happening over and over and over again, day after day after day.This is the story of one of those young people, and the terrible things that happened to her, and the terrible things she did as a result.
— P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe
And for a split second Cleo saw the value in living openly. Liberation was Windex for the soul. It let the light shine through. But why dwell? Nothing was ever going to change.
— Lisi Harrison, The Ghoul Next Door
You will be an attraction for the people of this village,” Señor Castillo
— Marisette Burgess
They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
— Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
— Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
— Benjamin Franklin
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
— Joseph Heller
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
— Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On Human Nature
No bird ever looked at a plane in envy
— Iain Thomas, 25 Love Poems for the NSA
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
— Gore Vidal
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
— Sallust
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
— Voltaire, Candide
The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.
— Marty Rubin
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
— Harold G. Coffin
Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.
— Ana Monnar
Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
— Henry Fielding
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
— Oscar Wilde
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
— John Chrysostom
When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I looked up and saw Mary Alice's toes, as she stood at the edged of the diving board. Her second toe lay on top of her big toe on each foot. I had never seen such a thing. I wondered if Mary Alice's toes would ever prevent her from doing the things she wanted to do in life. "Look, y'all!" she said, forming her perfect body into a perfect swan's dive. I decided then that any time I got frustrated with my overall situation in life, mad or jealous of knee socks or a pink canopy bed in a pink room, I'd take a deep breath and think about Mary Alice's toes. At least I didn't have Mary Alice's toes.
— Margaret McMullan
When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.
— Zane Grey
I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the first thing I'd envied about him. It was arguably what enabled him to write the book in the first place. ("Envy")
— Kathryn Chetkovich
It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.
— Joseph Epstein, Envy
What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite. Always has been so! Look at Socrates, in Plato, and his bunch round him! The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits...Protagoras, or whoever it was! And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray! I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks. No, there's something wrong with the mental life, radically. It's rooted in spite and envy, envy and spite. Ye shall know the tree by its fruit.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lack can greatly be the reasons for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack, move for what is a must and be happy with what you have!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Lack can greatly be the reason for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack, move for what is a must and be happy with what you have!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Many critics are born of envy.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said."I envy him," I said."Envy him, lord?""Most of us have to lower our trews to shit.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I hate this complete obsession with class, especially at this place, you can hardly say 'hello' to anyone before they are getting all prolier-than-thou and telling you about how their dad's a one eyed chimney-sweep with rickets, and how they've still got an outside loo, and have never been on a plane or whatever, all that dubious crap, most of which is usually lies anyway, and I'm thinking why are you telling me this? Am I meant to feel guilty? D'you think it's my fault or something, or are you just feeling pleased with yourself for escaping your pre-determined social role or some self congratulatory bullshit? I mean, what does it matter anyway? People are people, if you ask me, and they rise or fall by their own talents and merits, and their own labours, and blaming the fact they've got a settee rather than a sofa, or eat tea rather tan dinner, that's just an excuse, it's just whining self-pity and shoddy thinking.... I don;t make judgements about other people because of their background and I expect people to treat me with the same courtesy... It's my parent's moeny and its not as if they got it from nicking people's dole or running sweatshops in Johannesburg or something. They worked fucking hard for what they've got. It's a privilege and they treat it as such and they do their best to give something back. But if you ask me, theres no snob like an inverted snob... Im just so fucking bored of people trying to pass plain old envy off as some sort of virtue.
— David Nicholls, Starter for Ten
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
— Eunice Blake
People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.
— David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow
Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.
— Stephan Labossiere
Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Even envy, wants to even the score.
— Anthony Liccione
For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
People's envy shows how unhappy they feel
—  their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are.
Be happy when people envy you, you are on the right path
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers
— Katherine Boo
There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It's the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited -- every day, all over again
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Contentment is indispensable joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear
—  it will replace with the truth!
Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Fiercely guard the passions igniting your heart, so that your flames reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.
— Suzy Kassem
Harboring envy is saying to God that how He fashioned you in not good enough. Let it go. Embrace who you were created to be.
— Ashley N. Sauls
... the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted,...
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Envy is an envious person and truth they don't like to wear
— Marcelle Hinkson
Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers.
— Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth
Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth. Is Envy then such a monster? Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did anybody ever seriously confess to envy? Something there is in it universally felt to be more shameful than even felonious crime. And not only does everybody disown it, but the better sort are inclined to incredulity when it is in earnest imputed to an intelligent man. But since it's lodgement is in the heart and not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.
— Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
You know, sometimes I even envy myself.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
— Seneca
Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.
— Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
Unlock joy in any situation!True understanding and mutual respect do not bridge blames, destructive, negative criticisms, false excuses and gossips. To express disappointments and ill-feelings are normal however to gossip around certain people and events in order to put another person down and destroy one's credibility is a form of bullying whether one expresses it publicly or privately.Beware of segregation, regionalism, individualism, discrimination, stereotyping, destructive criticism, false accusations, biased wrong assumptions, prejudice, senseless comparison and unwanted competition because life is much more meaningful to live for where there is unity and harmony.
— Angelica Hopes
Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The grass is yellow on both sides, envy turning on of them green.
— Meghan Blistinsky
Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: “I can forgive everything, but not that you are— that you are what you are—that I am not what you are—indeed that I am not you.” This form of envy strips the opponent of his very existence, for this existence as such is felt to be a “pressure,” a “reproach,” and an unbearable humiliation. In the lives of great men there are always critical periods of instability, in which they alternately envy and try to love those whose merits they cannot but esteem. Only gradually, one of these attitudes will predominate. Here lies the meaning of Goethe’s reflection that “against another’s great merits, there is no remedy but love.”― Max Scheler
— Max Scheler
I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?
— Susan Juby, Home to Woefield
You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.
— John Piper
My envy's not dangerous
—  it wouldn't hurt a mouse.
Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them...
— Alen Sargsyan, The Known Unknown
I once had a complete life - in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.
— Prashant Chopra, The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.
— Ally Carter, Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story
Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers. There might even be a show of the wife's work in a well-known but slightly off gallery. Everyone would come see it, and they would treat the wife with unctuous respect. Her photographs of celebrities without makeup, and seascapes, and street people, would be enormous, as though size and great equipment could make up for whatever else was missing.
— Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Life is funny sometimes. Of course it isn’t as funny as smashing your brand new Mustang convertible into your house and having your life flash before your eyes. Sitting here in my car in the middle of my den, I can't help but think that things could have worked out differently - that could have been happier - that could have lived the life that was meant for me. That was, if I didn't have to keep up with the Greenbergs.
— Phil Wohl, Keeping Up with the Greenbergs
Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker, on the other hand, sought to deprive you of yours.
— Elizabeth Powers
Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking tend to be happier... I wanted to be like the other guys because they were having more fun. But I couldn't be like them because I hated everything they stood for.
— J. Matthew Nespoli