Top 50 Dahlia Adler Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Just because you’re telling a good story, doesn’t mean it’s the right story. And I think that it’s really important to tell the right story.”

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2. “What am I? It’s one summer. You can’t change into a different person over a summer.”

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3. “I’m not looking to fail you. I don’t teach with the hope everyone will play games on their phone during lectures and then skate by with Cs.” “If you did, you’d probably be much happier.” “I’m going to ignore that.”

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4. “It hit me then that I just couldn’t do it anymore. The lying, the hiding, the pretending to be okay with it. I was done.”

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5. “There is more beyond this.”

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6. “So sue me, a girl could only think so rationally after a text like that.”

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7. “This sort of vapid family arrangement had unfortunately put Taron’s constant oddness into a new context. Tegan could see the lonely rich boy all grown up. Especially now.”

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8. “It means something like purification or cleansing. It’s why stories can make us feel better about our emotions. They give us the opportunity to clean out our mental chaos and feel the emotion from a safe distance. You don’t have to tell me anything, of course, but just for yourself, it might help to do some journaling, or – ” “I’ll think about.”

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9. “Why the hell do you do all this stuff if you hate it?”

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10. “I’m okay,” I muttered, even though no one had asked, even though it wasn’t true.”

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11. “Tegan flung the door ajar, blocking the entrance. “Call me one more womanly slur, even one Uncle Will penned himself, and I will destroy you and the antiquated gender binary you rode in on.”

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12. “That too,” she says with a grin, then takes another sip of water. “I’m an equal-opportunity leave-relationship-destruction-in-my-wake kind of girl.”

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13. “I will tell everyone every single thing that happened here today, right down to you desperately needing a change of pants. You hear me?”

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14. “Oh, you think I’m acting like I’m the only one impacted by this?” Katherine spat. “It’s not like I’m not dealing with enough nonsense, it’s not like I’m about to conceal my sister’s elopement a few weeks from finals. You have no idea the amount of stress I’m under right now. I can’t do this.”

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15. “How is it possible to feel such a strong connection with somebody but miss the most vital piece of information about him?”

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16. “Your dad gave you a Benz for your seventeenth birthday, and you already totaled it. You know what my pop got me for my seventeenth birthday? A phone call. In February.”

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17. “But why does it have to be a tragedy, just because of what our parents decided to do?” he asked. He was shifting in his seat, clearly agitated. “Don’t we have any say in how things work out? Isn’t it our turn to make our own choices?”

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18. “I think about that handshake a lot, because it reassures me that it was clearly just a friendly suggestion. I had no idea what it would spark.”

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19. “This is the story of a woman who had done it all wrong. She couldn’t do it over, but she could do it differently.”

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20. “It was rewarding. It helped me in the process of reconvincing myself that I was capable of creating an environment in which living things could grow and thrive.”

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21. “I think you underestimate how closely I studied the life of Anne Boleyn. Don’t be fooled by my Byzantine-loving exterior.”

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22. “Don’t.” Shai squeezes her hand. “You’ve got your reasons for hiding your Jewishness, and I’ve got my reasons for wearing mine on my sleeve. Or, more literally, on my head, I guess. We both know the world isn’t exactly kind to us.”

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23. “The quiet of his voice does nothing to dampen the weight of his words. This, the twin lodestars of our loneliness, pulls on us as surely as a moon.”

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24. “Its time to figure out what makes you happy and just do it. Worst comes to worst, you make a mistake and then you change paths. That’s the best freaking part of being a teenager.”

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25. “Tony laughs. “Yeah, because it’s hilarious. Anyway, kid deserves it, hiding his horns under that little Jewfro, acting like he’s some poor ‘minority’ when he could probably buy and sell all of us.” “Man, I think you might be spending too much time watching Fox News with your dad.”

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26. “The result is a collection that explores different cultures, celebrates a variety of genders and forms of love, and addresses different kinds of emotional pain head-on.”

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27. “If being bi means always knowing, well, that isn’t me. The only girls on my bedroom walls are my friends, and I’m certainly not into any of them that way. That settles it. I’m straight. Just like I always thought. I wait for the feeling of a weight lifting from my shoulders, but it never comes.”

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28. “You know what, Abigail? You’re right – it is selfish. But there’s nothing inherently immature about making a selfish choice. It is hard to put what you know is right for you first, when you know people you love don’t respect your choices. It is hard to say ‘what I want is worthy.’ It is hard to say ‘I know myself and what I need, even if everyone else thinks otherwise.’ Don’t tell me this is immature when it took me months of thinking about it every damn day to make this choice.”

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29. “Over the course of just the last two days Mateo was clearly getting worse, wilting and going brittle, barely hanging on. If he were a plant, I could repot him in this new, chocolate-cake soil and water him, and maybe he’d take root and get a second life, but, unfortunately, Mateo was a boy, not a plant.”

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30. “And sometimes when you like the gender you’re ‘supposed’ to like, it’s not so clear what’s happening with the others.”

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31. “Sophie who had won the money to come across the country to school. Sophie who escaped.”

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32. “Even now, almost grown, I am more pet than child. And they remain, to me, more king and queen than the mother and father they proclaimed themselves when I was too small to realize I was not just being brought to see the fairy court. I was being folded away into it.”

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33. “And then Shai steps around him like he’s nothing more than an inconvenient ant in the path of an elephant’s paw and lets himself into the library, where Mx. Tubal awaits with the shadow of a smile on their lips and ears full of earbuds that play nothing at all.”

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34. “I’m stunned, watching this scene, uncomprehending. Is Benjamin this distraught my sister’s leaving? It’s not like Patience isn’t coming home, not like she’s being shipped off to some deserted island or exiled from Oklahoma permanently. Her internship is only six weeks. I feel bad for him, even if I can’t empathize with sadness at my sister’s absence.”

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35. “I don’t even realize we’re falling out of our chairs until we land on the sand, our laughter floating into the summer night amid the crackling flames until our mouths find each other again and there’s no more laughing at all.”

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36. “But the thing about Hansel and Gretel is that their parents abandoned them in the woods to starve. Perdita didn’t want to know if she’d been left in the woods. It was easier to imagine that she’d just been born there.”

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37. “I didn’t know you could feel lucky for getting to hold a girl’s hair back while she pukes into the bushes. I didn’t know you could look at a girl and think, ‘Jesus, I could fall so hard for you if you’d let me.”

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38. “But the seven of us are here for a different kind of power. The kind even money can’t command. It isn’t enough to make this town our own. We want the same thing the Shade sought – an eternity to savor and forge.”

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39. “Chill for you,” I spat. “Not for the people you left in the real world. Just because you don’t check doesn’t mean there isn’t news or that people don’t need you!”

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40. “I drove five hours to see you once and I’ll do it again and again and again if I have to. Just... I want to be with you. Wherever you decide to go, I’ll come find you.”

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41. “Pretty sure I can. You signed the contract. You’re a witness that he owes me this. And before you get high and mighty about it, why didn’t you just use your own money to take out Persia? I mean, it’s kind of your fault he’s in this position in the first place, isn’t it?” “I’d have had money if he hadn’t ‘borrowed’ it from me for a concert ticket he couldn’t afford,” Bas snaps. “You’re not the only one he screwed over.”

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42. “Instead, I might be happier if I pursue what I want without worrying about what my sister does. It’s not just right to let this grudge go – I deserve to let it go, to dwell on new hopes instead of old wounds.”

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43. “I think we’ve both waited long enough to turn the page in this story, don’t you?”

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44. “But just because you’re telling a good story doesn’t mean it’s the right story” -Clementine Walker.”

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45. “What if Zal chose her but then had to lose that light in his eyes whenever he talked about the accusative case in Latin? What if he doesn’t choose me?”

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46. “When a friendship crumbles, there are only really two things that can bring it back: a shitload of time, or a sincere apology.”

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47. “And then I opened the door to my room and saw you standing there in the parking lot, in the rain, and I just thought, ‘This. This is what the perfect time feels like. It’s not about the milestones; its about the person.”

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48. “Yeah, but.” Briony huffs. “Don’t you think she wants it too much? The power, I mean. Doesn’t it scare you, what she might do?”

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49. “You know I play each villain with glee, but the ‘bastard brother’ with a bizarrely anglicized name might be the lowest of the Bard’s baddies. I spent nearly six months stomping the stage, indicating evilness until my eyebrows hurt. Evil eyebrows are a thing, did you know?”

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50. “This tattoo was supposed to be proof of his supremacy, and he will leave here with a wound that will scar into proof he is no white king, not even a knight.”

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