To Professor, With Love Quotes
"You’re a nobody. You’ll never amount to anything, just like your trailer park trash whore of a mama."
"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"Apologies are for the flawed, Aspen. Stop highlighting your imperfections."
"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity." - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
"It wasn’t about what I wanted you to say; it was about what you needed to say."
"Truly talented literature is truly talented for a reason. It always—always—finds a way to reach every person who reads it. It takes a theme about the human condition and makes it its little bitch."
"You do have emotions, don’t you?" "I’m having some right now."
"What is football...to you?" "Desperation," I said without meaning to.
"Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation." - Louis Menand
"Sometimes the questions are complicated but the answers are simple." - Dr. Seuss
"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being, not just with my hands but with my heart." - Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire." - Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Bernard M. Baruch
"Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only." - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people." - Geoffrey Chaucer
"Don’t you love how the streetlights reflect through the windshield? It’s so pretty."
"I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be."
"You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction."
"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
"Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is."
"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength." - A.J. Cronin
"I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love." - Elizabeth Strout
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
"Science is about hypotheses, theories and laws made from facts that have been proven over time. Mathematics is made up of absolutes, where there is only one correct answer to each equation. But with music, art, literature, the possibilities are endless."
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
"Noel Gamble was art, like God’s apology for all the regular men in the world."
"There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else."
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself." - Amy Hempel
"I would rather be overlooked and misjudged with low expectations than to come in my first semester with a bunch of flash to intimidate people and make them think I want to roll right over them."
"Time and therapy helps more than you'd realize."
"It’s been a long time. Directly afterward, I drew so hard into my shell, I didn’t even care when Zach bragged to the entire school about winning the bet. I didn’t care about much of anything."
"I wish I had grown up in your hometown. And you’d been the star football player I had a crush on."
"It was the purest relationship I’d ever had with anyone."
"I hated that we had to keep it secret, but I had to admit, I loved hoarding her all to myself."
"But now that I was, I didn’t miss the other way. I was so obsessed with Aspen I didn’t even want anyone else."
"Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding." - Sheng Wang
"When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe." -Maya Angelou
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake
"Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it." -Candace Bushnell
"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."
"You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand."
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
"Nothing that will affect you. Nothing that will touch Noel. I think."
"I refuse to be one of those teachers who gives a student a grade she doesn’t deserve."
"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you." - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
"You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world." - S.E. Hinton (That Was Then, This is Now)
"Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions." - Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in." - Will Rogers
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Choosing Simplicity
"I don’t care how many times you break up with me or how many other men you try to take on a date. I don’t care how wrong we are for each other. I don’t care that I’ll never be good enough for you or that we’re risking everything to be together. Your mother would never approve. Whatever. Fuck it all. You are fucking mine. And I’m yours. And we belong together."
"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting." - Haruki Murakami
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end." - Gilda Radner
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth." - Jess C. Scott, The Intern
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss