Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.
Simone Elkeles
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Simone Elkeles
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 24
Author
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Worth
Risk
Future
Girl
Made
Love
More quotes by Simone Elkeles
Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.
Simone Elkeles
Why are you making a joke out of this? she asks. Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.
Simone Elkeles
Luis is right there.” I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard animals. I have yet to inform him that talent isn’t as much of a chick magnet when you get into junior high.
Simone Elkeles
Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud.
Simone Elkeles
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
Simone Elkeles
As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.
Simone Elkeles
I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.
Simone Elkeles
The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.
Simone Elkeles
I'm ready for that adrenaline rush...with you.
Simone Elkeles
And I’m yours,” I tell him. “Forever and always and then some.
Simone Elkeles
I want to live life on my own terms.
Simone Elkeles
It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.
Simone Elkeles
Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.
Simone Elkeles
Say something, Amy, Miranda insists. Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better. Okay, Miranda. I've got it. I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. At least I'm not dead. How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better.
Simone Elkeles
Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.
Simone Elkeles
She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.
Simone Elkeles
He may be out of my life physically, but he’ll always be a part of me. I can’t let him go even if I tried. Alex took a piece of my heart, but that doesn’t mean my life has to be on hold. I can’t keep running after ghosts.
Simone Elkeles
What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car
Simone Elkeles
Consider me your candy stripper... I mean striper.
Simone Elkeles
Mujer, you own my soul.
Simone Elkeles