#quite

We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had. ↗

I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?" She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?" She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him. "Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #declarations-of-love #love #paranormal

The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country. ↗

— Bob Corker

#brand #california #ceiling #country #creating

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— F. M. Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

I'm not quite as anonymous as I was. ↗

— Larry David

#i #quite

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner. ↗

— Jack Dee

#character #corner #did #else #everything

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#easily #how #i #people #pigeonhole

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#even #fantastic #i #i am #intelligent

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#clutter #dropping #gets #had #i

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming. ↗