Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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About Simone Elkeles

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Simone Elkeles is an American author known for the teen romance Perfect Chemistry trilogy and How To Ruin trilogy. She is a New York Times Bestselling young adult author. Elkeles won the 2010 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance from the Romance Writers of America for her book Perfect...

More quotations from Simone Elkeles

He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

He took a piece of my heart, but that doesn't mean my life has to be on hold. I can't keep running after ghosts.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

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I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn't.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

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You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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More quotations tagged with “conformity”

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

—Lora Leigh in Forbidden Pleasure

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

—Rita Mae Brown

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Freedom lies beyond conformity or rebellion.

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When ideas go unexamined and unchallenged for a long enough time, certain things happen. They become mythological, and they become very, very powerful. They create conformity. They intimidate.

—E. L. Doctorow

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