Bjorn Shen Quotes

So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed. ~ Bjorn Shen

I was in this on my own - it was make it or break it. ~ Bjorn Shen

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions. ~ Bjorn Lomborg

I think I like you," I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear.
"I think I like you back. ~ L.J. Shen

Welcome to Random Acts of Meanness. It's just like kindness, but for cunts. ~ L.J. Shen

This state of equilibrium is only attractive when we walk a tightrope; sitting on the ground there is nothing marvellous about it." 12 ~ Bjorn N. Sandaker

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. ~ Bjorn Lomborg

Guys are so weird. They can love a girl to death but still mess with other people. ~ L.J. Shen

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues. ~ Bjorn Lomborg

There will be no one else, Moonshine.I will never let you get over me. ~ L.J. Shen

In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy. ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?' ~ Bjorn Lomborg

Shying away from your problems only makes them multiply. Kinda like cancer. Left to its own devices, it will spread to other organs in your body. ~ L.J. Shen

Indie; I think the ten-minute song is going to be really good.

Jenna: I hope you didn't tell him that.

Indie: No, I told him it's unmarketable.

Hudson: And what did he say?

Indie: He said I sounded like a Suit., specifically like Jenna Holden, and that Jenna Holden was hired to get him Balmain deals and negotiate fat deals with record labels, not produce his next album. He also said he'd once caught you nodding your head at a Maroon 5 song, and the fact that you're not dead to him after that is a miracle in itself, so you should not push your luck. Again, his words, not mine.>/b> ~ L.J. Shen

My father asked me about Rexroth, my mom asked me about my father, and no one asked me about me. Or Theo. Or surfing. ~ L.J. Shen

Yesterday was an introduction," he snapped. "Today…today, baby, I'm marking you as mine. ~ L.J. Shen

The harder I fought back every time he messed with me, the more he liked me. I bet if I set his penthouse on fire, he would laugh like it was all a big, fat joke. "Hell, ~ L.J. Shen

What does Miss LeBlanc have that the rest of the human population doesn't?'
'My heart, Sue,' I said. 'She has my heart. ~ L.J. Shen

Kissing him was like standing on the edge of a cliff. Nice view, but you knew it was deadly. Still, a stupid, irrational, dangerously alive part of you still wanted to hurl yourself down to meet your own demise. ~ L.J. Shen

You're awfully possessive."
…"That's because you're awfully mine. ~ L.J. Shen

Real love doesn't disappear. It can turn into hate, and hate can turn into love, but those feelings won't ever turn into indifference." She ~ L.J. Shen

She could tell me a thousand things with her eyebrows alone, this girl. Sometimes I wanted to shave them off just to spite her. ~ L.J. Shen

You only get one life, Luna. One stab at this thing called happiness. Why deprive yourself of things you want just because they weren't given to you the way you hoped for them to come? ~ L.J. Shen

Yet the antidote to all the venom is honesty. ~ L.J. Shen

Surrender," I whisper. "I want us to surrender to this, Rory, like you promised all those years ago." Before life tainted what we had. ~ L.J. Shen

Ms. Green…you're about eight minutes too late to walk out of this arrangement. This…" His hand dunked under my dress and between my thighs…"Is mine until school ends. I will eat it, fuck it, play with it, and sleep in it if I want to. And I want to. I wanna do all those things to you. ~ L.J. Shen

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. ~ Bjorn Borg

But if you look closely, you'll find beauty in the ugliness, too. ~ L.J. Shen

For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with. ~ L.J. Shen

I'm kind of hoping it will end like this. You made me happy. Very happy. But…you deserve everything. Wife, kids, a white picket fence."

"And I'll have all of it. With you."
"You know that can't happen with me."
"Then it can't happen with anyone. There won't be a next Rosie. And there won't be another story like ours. This is it, Rose LeBlanc. And this is us. If there is no you, then there is no me."

"You know, I always hated Romeo and Juliet . The play. The movie. The very idea. It was tragic, all right. Tragically stupid. I mean, they were what? Thirteen? Sixteen? What a waste of life, to kill yourself because your family wouldn't let you get hitched. But Romeo and Juliet were right. I was the next eleven years killing myself slowly while I grieved for you. Then you came back, and I still thought it was just a fascination. But now that I know…"

"Now that I know that it can only ever be you, you're going to get better for me so Earth won't explode. Can you do that, Sirius? I promise not to leave this room until you get out. Not even for a shower. Not even to get you your chocolate chip cookies. I'll get someone to drive all the way to New York and bring them for you."

"I love you." Rosie's tears curtained her vision.
"I love you, Baby LeBlanc," I said. "So fucking much. You taught me how to love. How well did I do?"
"A-plus," she whispered. "You aced it. Can you promise me something?"
"Anything."
" L ~ L.J. Shen

And if I want to hurt the person, is that hate? - Black

No, it's pain. You want to inflict pain on the person who caused you to hurt. I think if you hate someone, you just want them gone. - Pink ~ L.J. Shen

It was creepy, but when you thought about it - when you really, truly put some thought into it - a lot of the stuff grown-ups found intimidating were kids' favorite things. Because kids, unlike their parents, watch the world sans the tainted lens of preconception and intolerance.

Kids are not racist.

Kids are not judgmental.

Kids don't care that your car costs twice the annual salary of the average American.

Kids are fun.

Kids are pure. ~ L.J. Shen

Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago. ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

I closed my eyes and imagined that his voice was a wave. I rode it all the way to a smile. ~ L.J. Shen

Isn't that the essence of love? Find someone worth killing for? Someone with the power to ruin you? ~ L.J. Shen

Be wise. Let your heart lead the way. And when you find someone who's worth it never let them go ~ L.J. Shen

Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years. ~ Bjorn Lomborg

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it. ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

Fine. Whatever. Fuck it. They're whiny and annoying and could grow up to be fucking serial killers. Who needs them? ~ L.J. Shen