Justina Chen Quotes - Page 2

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• Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Memorable, Heart

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• That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

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  Tattoo, Perfect, Body

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• Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.

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  Heart, Bored, Mind

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• That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

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  Rip, Reality, Garden

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

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  Broken, Accepting What Is, Complaining

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• There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

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  Memories, Dragons, Challenges

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• No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

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  Absolutes, Permanent

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• I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.

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  Beautiful, Mom, Mirrors

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• Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

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  Beautiful, True Beauty, Definitions

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• From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

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  Heart, Ideas, Leaving

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• Silence, too, can be torture.

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  Silence, Torture

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• If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

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  Boys, Footnotes, One Thing

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• You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

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  Sometimes, Jacob, Routes

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• I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

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  Dad, Eggs, Firsts

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• The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

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  Sunset, Talking, Ideas

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• My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

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  Mean, Looks, Facade

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• If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

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  Art, Fear, Thinking

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• A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

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  Jobs, Worry, Way

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• You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

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  Running, Guy, Way

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• Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?

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  Coffee, Hair, Smell

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• Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

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  Fun, Safe, Rooms

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• There is real comfort in being quiet.

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  Real, Comfort, Quiet

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• What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

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  Gratitude, Self, Mutual

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• The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.

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  Girl, Falling In Love, Sweaters

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• Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

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  Teacher, Class, Speak

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