Even though I tried to stop feeling things for him, I just couldn't.
—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight
Sometimes opposites attract, and find out they're not as opposite as they thought.
—Allie Brennan in Tight Knit
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
He looked up at me and grinned, and again, I felt this strange urge to smile back. And I was not someone who smiled a lot.
—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye
It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.
—Cecily von Ziegesar in Reckless
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
—Markus Zusak
I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher.
—Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer
What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.
—Courtney Cole in Every Last Kiss
He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next.
—Tarryn Fisher in The Opportunist
But you were like a drug. When I was high on you, nothing else mattered.
—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost
That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives.
—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver
People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
—Rachel Hollis in Party Girl
I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life.
—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces