Christina Westover Quotes

Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination. ~ Christina Westover

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature! ~ Christina Westover

You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you've enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it wasn't disappointing. She sounds exactly as I remember her - and there is still something so warm and caring about her that it is difficult to hate her for how she abandoned us. ~ Christina Westover

All I want is to sleep
to dream. Life is better in dreams. ~ Christina Westover

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop - there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. ~ Christina Westover

Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new path to freedom. ~ Christina Westover

Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love. ~ Christina Westover

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners. ~ Christina Westover

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like. ~ Christina Westover

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar. ~ Christina Westover

How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'
(Amber)
'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.'
(Virgil Daly) ~ Christina Westover

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. ~ Christina Westover

They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves. ~ Christina Westover

Besides,love is only a feeling. ~ Christina Westover

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out. ~ Christina Westover

I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever. ~ Christina Rasmussen

The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn. ~ Christina Rossetti

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air. ~ Christina Applegate

It was comical to compare that to the reaction I'd had to losing Chloe. I'd essentially turned into a filthy hobo, not eating, not showering, and surviving entirely on scotch and self-pity ~ Christina Lauren

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years. ~ Christina Milian

For me, there is no separation. Writing is the center… But it's all critical. ~ Christina Katz

She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth. ~ Christina Rossetti

It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure. ~ Christina Baker Kline

Just because I'm mad doesn't mean I'm not right. ~ Christina Henry

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still. ~ Christina Rossetti

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious. ~ Christina Hendricks

We always seem to end up against a door," she breathed out. Her words faltered as I licked and nipped my way down her collarbone to the scoop of skin above her breasts.

"I have fantasies about what I want to do to you against this door. ~ Christina Lee

This was not Hatch, her constant companion through the mouse hole. Nor was this the man who had methodically rescued her from a burning building. This was Hatcher, the murderer with the axe, the man who had been found covered in blood and surrounded by bodies. ~ Christina Henry

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues. ~ Christina Romer

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower ~ Christina Rossetti

He closes the door with a determined click, and I hear him call to a flight attendant, and I sink down onto the toilet seat, resting my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands as I listen to him through the door.

"I'm sorry to bother you but my wife," he says, and then pauses. With the last word he says, my heart begins to hammer. "The one who now got sick? She's started her... cycle? And I'm wondering if you keep any, or rather if you have... something? You see this all happened a bit fast and she packed in a hurry, and before that we were in Vegas. I have no idea why she came with me but I really really don't want to screw this up. And now she needs something. Can she, uh," he stutters, finally saying simply, "borrow quelque chose?" I cover my mouth as he continues to ramble, and I would given anything in this moment to see the expression of the flight attendant on the other side of this door. "I meant use," he continues. "Not to borrow because I don't think they work that way."

I hear a woman's voice ask, "Do you know if she needs tampons or pads?"

Oh God. Oh God. This can't be happening.

"Um..." I hear him sigh and then say, "I have no idea but I'll give you a hundred dollars to end this conversation and give me both. ~ Christina Lauren

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. ~ Christina Stead

If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups. ~ Christina Hendricks

Butterflies and moths
to the flame
--- and we are the flame ~ Christina M. Ward

I never expected falling in love with someone would just make me feel even more comfortable in my own skin. I sort of want to tell him, 'I think I love you' because I suspect he would make a soft sound of sympathy and agree that it's unfortunate timing. ~ Christina Lauren

I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough. ~ Christina Baker Kline

What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love. ~ Christina Perri

And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too personal, get your tough skin on and stand firm. ~ Christina Grimmie

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. ~ Christina Rossetti

As long as you're not 'gross full,'" Raj said. "That's when you're so full that it's hard to breathe because your stomach is pushing up into your lung region. ~ Christina Daley

For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands ~ Christina Rossetti

If a woman wanted a man to think of her constantly, she should tell him he could only have her once a wee and bam - concentration blown. ~ Christina Lauren

Do you want to join me at the park for a run?" "You run?" I asked. "On purpose? ~ Christina Lauren

He's the worst, nice to everyone and never fucks up. Always there for his mates, never comes off like an arsehole. He ~ Christina Lauren

Wasn't it enough that I was secretly giving her the chance to break my heart? ~ Christina Lauren

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that. ~ Christina Hendricks

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think? ~ Christina Stead

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."
--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry ~ Tamara Valentine

It's possible I mentally calculate the danger of being relatively drunk for the entirety of the next few weeks. ~ Christina Lauren

I suspect I would do almost anything for you, ~ Christina Lauren

The Beetle's body, whether it be a '49 split or a '73 Jeans Bug, or an '03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930's. This is evident in it's body styling which aside from it's rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.
The only problem was, in the beginning they didn't seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally! ~ Christina Engela

I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible. ~ Christina Aguilera

By its simple shape, circle includes everyone without distinction, welcomes and invites all to participate, and creates equality among those gathered. ~ Christina Baldwin

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution. ~ Christina Hoff Sommers

Keep your hands off me. She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry.
She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form. ~ Christina Brooke

I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is. ~ Christina Baker Kline

Now everyone is a critic. ~ Christina Aguilera

Oh my dear now did you hear of clumsy Captain Cotton? He sailed a knot in Haley's Loch before hit the bottom! ~ Christina Daley

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting. ~ Christina Ricci

I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut. ~ Tara Westover

He was as much a victim of hope as I had been. ~ Christina Garner

I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone. ~ Christina Baker Kline

Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred. ~ Christina Engela

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation. ~ Christina Romer