Christina Lauren: "This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny..."

About Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren, the combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings is an American author duo of contemporary fiction, teen fiction and romance novels.

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Is this what it means to become infatuated with someone? A heart becomes a hybrid, half yours, half theirs. Mine beats like this because it wants out. My chest aches to let his heart in.

—Christina Lauren

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Everything was so much better before I knew what I was missing.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Bastard

Do you ever feel like the people who mean the most aren't the people you see the most? Lately I just feel like I'm not putting my heart where it matters.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Player

She's independent and she's been doing it on her own for so long she'll never be the girl to tell you how much she needs you. But she'll show you how much she wants this.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Bitch

What does 'I love you' even mean? It's weird how different three words can feel. I mean, I've said it before but it's never felt so… big, you know? I'm not sure it meant the same thing then. Like, I was too young to get it.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Stranger

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

—M. Scott Peck

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I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing.

—Brian Koffman

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In my experience, middle-class Americans do not feel at ease around poor people. Even people of high ideals who care about the needy experience discomfort in the presence of the needy themselves.

—Rabbi Eliezer Finkelman

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This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny flashes of discomfort, the reactions we can't hide.

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