#dole

Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#first-love #infatuation #love #lust #teenage-love

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#condolence #hug #humans #insult #love

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#am #best #candidate #candidates #carolina

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#adventure #am #dream #i #i am

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#any #appalling #both #cannot #circumstances

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#affects #also #childhood #children #currently

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#being #got #kid #me #skinny

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#also #become #childhood #come #comfortable

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#childhood #four #infancy #man #obsolescence

The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever ↗

— Megan Abbott

#bravery #friendship #stength #friendship