Jacob Quotes

“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

“Are you two you know?" Jacob pointed at us. " Together? Together? "
I didn't get a chance to answer. Cam spun me around and kissed me, right there between the two buildings. It was no friendly peck on the lips. When our tongues touched, my bag slipped off my arm and hit the frosted ground.
"Holy crap," Jacob muttered. "I think they're going to make babies.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You

“I would be clapping like a seal right now if I weren’t so fucking hung over, just so you know. Inside, I am doing happy jumping jacks for you with glittery pom poms.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You

“Sorry. Sorry. Don't hit. Bitches be scary when they hit.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You

“Wait!"
What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.
You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."
Cup coffee?"
Taste it."
What? Are you the coffee police or something?”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

“But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.
And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Like you...whatever...love you a bit.
I think I kind of love you too.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“Teachers deserve respect," I explain.
"Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and that won't hurt.
Yeah, it won't hurt you. It'll drive me bloody crazy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“You're good enough, Jacob.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.”
― Jacob Slichter, So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life

“Don't call it death; call it moving to Heaven.”
― Jacob Bowen

“There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.”
― Melina Marchetta

“Palestina ni nchi ya Waisraeli waliyopewa na Mungu wa Yakobo. Hata hivyo, hawakutimiza masharti. Mungu aliwaagiza kuua kila mtu katika nchi ya Kaanani na miji yake yote. Waisraeli, wakiongozwa na Yoshua, waliua watu wengi katika nchi ya Kaanani. Hawakuua kila mtu katika miji ya Ashdodi, Gathi na Ukanda wa Gaza kama walivyoagizwa. Mungu alimwambia Ibrahimu kuwa angempa yeye na uzao wake nchi ya Kaanani kuwa milki yao ya milele, na kuwa Yeye ndiye angekuwa Mungu wao daima. Vita ya Israeli na Palestina itamalizwa na Mungu. Itamalizwa na hekima.”
― Enock Maregesi

“One of my seminary professors once said that when we read the Bible, we should read it with resistance: constantly asking questions, wrestling with it the way Jacob wrestled with God. May these pages invite you to do just that.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

“These things went right to his head, it was true, but so what?”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“and she told me self-portraits aren't really about faces but what's going on behind the faces.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“… not because she’d wasted herself on them but because he didn’t see how any of them could be more powerful than her simple being.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“My name is jacob”
― Jacob