I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling? Justina Chen More Quotes by Justina Chen More Quotes From Justina Chen 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. Justina Chen sweaters falling-in-love girl 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. Justina Chen dragons challenges memories No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute. Justina Chen absolutes permanent But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable. Justina Chen fruit different may 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. Justina Chen accepting-what-is broken complaining If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history. Justina Chen footnotes one-thing boys You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob Justina Chen routes jacob sometimes Silence, too, can be torture. Justina Chen torture silence 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. Justina Chen leaving heart ideas Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty. Justina Chen true-beauty definitions beautiful 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. Justina Chen mom mirrors beautiful What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect? Justina Chen mutual gratitude self There is real comfort in being quiet. Justina Chen real comfort quiet I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams? Justina Chen pants lasts doors Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful. Justina Chen memorable beautiful interesting If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields. Justina Chen makeup clothes attitude 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. Justina Chen memorable heart beautiful 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. Justina Chen tattoo body perfect Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind. Justina Chen bored mind heart Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees. Justina Chen degrees borders world
![](https://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/jolie-laide-pretty-ugly-draws-you-to-it-bored-into-heart-and-mind&appkey=&title=Justina Chen quote: Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.&pic=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-16727c08e805024ad4d68be69d40b3ff.jpg&ralateUid=&language=zh_cn){kind=link}
![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/jolie-laide-pretty-ugly-draws-you-to-it-bored-into-heart-and-mind&description=Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.&media=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-16727c08e805024ad4d68be69d40b3ff.jpg){kind=link}