Lena Holloway Quotes

He has left nothing except for a note, which I find neatly folded under one of my sneakers.
The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain.
And then, in smaller letters:
Forgive me. ~ Lauren Oliver

Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass out.
And then I decide I'm definitely dreaming, because as I'm watching, Alex starts peeling his shirt off over his head. ~ Lauren Oliver

Hugo never followed up anything Ester said. Ester always followed up what Hugo said. Neither of them was really interested in her but they were both interested in him. ~ Lena Andersson

I don't want to fuck you, Elle. I want to make love to you. Take me gently, angel." I moan at his words and come back in a little too eagerly. "Gently," he whispers, halting me for an instant before I place my lips tenderly on his. ~ Lena Black

The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I try to calm myself by imagining the ocean outside, its ragged breathing, the seagulls turning pinwheels in the sky.
It will be over soon, I tell myself. It will be over soon and then you'll go home, and you'll never have to think about the evaluation again. ~ Lauren Oliver

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you. ~ Lauren Oliver

He slithers his arms about ~ Lena Black

Upon graduation I had felt a heavy sense of doom, a sense that nothing would ever be simple again. But look, look what we had found! We were making it work, with our cash and our bad wrapping jobs, with our fried overdyed hair and our fried overprocessed foods. Everything took on a hazy romance: having a pimple, eating a doughnut, being cold. Nothing was a tragedy, and everything was a joke. ~ Lena Dunham

Every night for the rest of my life, I'll dream of the afternoon in the holloway, when I was waylaid by a dark-haired beauty who devastated me with the heat of a thousand troubled stars, and left my soul in cinders. Even when I'm an old man, and my brain has fallen to wrack and ruin, I'll remember the sweet fire of your lips under mine, and I'll say to myself, 'Now, that was a kiss.'" Silver-tongued ~ Lisa Kleypas

The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants
like picking your nose. ~ Ann Brashares

She took hold of him through his pants. I want this inside me five minutes ago. ~ Amber Belldene

It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more. ~ Lena Headey

I don't see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they'd have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin. ~ Ian Holloway

The anxiety that has followed me through my life like a bad friend had reappeared with a vengeance and taken a brand-new form ... I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. ~ Lena Dunham

Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives. ~ Richard Holloway

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. ~ Lena Dunham

I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess. ~ Lena Headey

Related: if someone says "I'm not going to hurt you" or "I'm not a creep," they probably are. Noncreeps don't feel the need to say it all the time. Never ~ Lena Dunham

You. Today. I fucked up. I'm sorry, Lena, I just ... I'm sorry. Shit just came out my mouth and I knew it wasn't right." He winced. "I'm sorry."
"Honestly, Jimmy, the words just aren't cutting it for me right now."
"What do I do then? Tell me. I don't know how to do this stuff," he said. "React right. ~ Kylie Scott

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else. ~ Lena Horne

I'm yours. You are not one of many lovers. There's only you, Gabrielle. ~ Lena Black

Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥ ~ Lauren Oliver

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross. ~ Ann Brashares

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for. ~ Lena Dunham

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock. ~ Lena Dunham

My mother and I are in the worst fight we've ever had, one that tests the concept of unconditional love, not to mention basic human decency. And the thing is, no one is right exactly. We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply. ~ Lena Dunham

So many questions crowd my brain at once, it's like one of the famous Portland fogs has swept up from the ocean and settled there, making it impossible to think normal, functional thoughts. We're sitting on the floor of the living room, which is squashed up right next to the "dining room", and I'm holding Jenny's workbook on my knees, reciting the problems to her, but my mind is on autopilot and my thoughts are a million miles away. Or rather, they're exactly 3.4 miles away, down at the marshy edge of Back Cove. ~ Lauren Oliver

Welcome back, Jem. ~ J.A. Belfield

after all, no longer a child and despised being treated as such. Besides, she of all people had nothing at all to fear from the Djinn. But of course, her ~ J. Kent Holloway

Events that come on tiptoe often change the world. ~ Richard Holloway

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. ~ Lena Dunham

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. ~ Lena Waithe

I was sure that, once I let someone penetrate me, my world would change in some indescribable yet fundamental way. I would never be able to hug my parents with the same innocence, and being alone with myself would have a different tenor. How could I ever experience true solitude again when I'd had someone poking around my insides? How permanent virginity feels, and then how inconsequential. ~ Lena Dunham

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax. ~ Lena Dunham

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers. ~ Josh Holloway

In his lecture on Jesus, Brown meditated on the unlikely paradox that any institution could represent this man because institutions, by their very nature, have to follow particular laws if they are to survive and prosper; and the main law of institutional survival is that the many take precedence over the few. If institutions are to endure they have to place a higher value on their own endurance than on loyalty to individuals, no matter how attractive or charismatic they may be. ~ Richard Holloway

The truth is, I'm all about you, Lena. You're my best friend. You're my girl. ~ Kylie Scott

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. ~ Lena Dunham

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship. ~ Emily Watson

He grinned and smoothed her hair back from her face. "That's exactly what we're about to do, darlin'. Negotiate. ~ Lena Diaz

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties. ~ Lena Dunham

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me. ~ Lena Dunham

I think women are conditioned to stand by their man and watch them make it to the top, but most men never believe the person they get into a relationship with is going to rise any higher than she was when they met. It takes a very special, evolved person to be able to deal with change within a relationship. ~ Lena Dunham

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. ~ Lena Dunham

And my mother always knew that, hence her Nikon raised high and pointed right into the mirror. She sensed that by documenting her own body, she was preserving her history. Beautifully. Nakedly. Imperfectly. Her private experiment made way for my public one. ~ Lena Dunham

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming. ~ Lena Dunham

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing. ~ Lena Headey

I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups. ~ Lena Dunham

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy. ~ Ann Brashares

I have a playlist of farts on my phone. ~ Lena Headey

I think people like Lena Dunham really opened up the door to what was possible, and they've inspired young women to go into filmmaking and writing and directing and acting in a way that maybe they didn't before, because now there is a path and there are jobs. ~ Judd Apatow