Ya Contemporary Quotes
Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.
The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.
Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.
One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.
Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.
That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.
The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.
P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.
Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?
Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.
Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone’s expectations and free-fall for once in her life
If you could do anything right now, at this moment, what would you do?”The question was obviously loaded, but the answer was surprisingly simple, “I’d be with you.
He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.
Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desireunleashing in one terrible flood.
The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.
And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he’d do it. For her.
In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.
His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.
She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.
When you're lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, you put the lid on as fast as you can.
I wish I could stop this one moment, capture it, because I know it won’t last.Because a guy like him doesn’t stay in a woman’s life. He breezes through and leaves only havoc behind.
Some people just don’t find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.
I’m begging you, for the love of all that’s filthy and wrong in this world, have a good time with tall, dark, and raspy, okay?
down. There just was no way someone that good looking was getting made fun of. Plus guys could sleep with a whole team and it would be okay. Talk about double standards.
Life had a funny way of kicking you in the gut when you weren't looking.~Torn~ by S. Nelson
I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?
It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.
In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn’t a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.
Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage.
I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I’m battered and bruised and I’m tougher, but I’m still here. I’m scared to death, but I’m more frightened of a life without you.
Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.
Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.
Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.
I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them.
It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it.
I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.
I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....
Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon.