#distracted

Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.” I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the white sheet she’d thrown in for mopping up bodily fluids. Quinn, sitting in the back seat, read my mind and handed it to me. “Thank you.” “No problem.” He leaned forward, pulling a corner of the sheet up to wipe off a small stream of blood on my neck. “You okay? ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#distracted-driving #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school #laura-anderson-kurk

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cute #distracted #hair-on-fire #mark-of-athena #not-listening

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess. ↗

— April Winchell

#bad #boyfriend #computer #days #distracted

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found. ↗

— William Stafford

#found #getting #going #like #lost

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#distracted #diversion #exclusive #gets #heart

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#actress #better #children #could #distracted

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success. ↗

— Tony Levin

#decide #distracted #means #others

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#embittered #lands #other #other lands #our

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#any #blindness #comes #distracted #egg

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#birth #could #distracted #done #every