Home / Quotes / Quote by Adele Parks

Quote by Adele Parks

“She's all science-y, which is cool, especially for a girl. It should not matter. But it does. Cuz we're not living in the future yet and people really do stereotype.”

Quote by Adele Parks

Book:Just My Luck

Work

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Adele Parks is a celebrated author known for her compelling novels that explore themes of love, family, and personal growth. Born in 1969, she has made a significant impact in the literary world with her unique storytelling and relatable characters. more

You May Also Like

“She's beautiful. A girl with glow. Eighteen years old, but the kind of eighteen they write about in books. The kind of eighteen that lives faster than the speed of hurt. A girl who has no reason at all to believe she isn't permanent.”

Teenager Girls Eighteen Year Old

Book:Sadie

Source: Sadie

“They looked at us girls with contempt in their eyes, ready to accept a power given to them unfairly. They had no idea what to do with it. And we felt the injustice as if someone else had been given a complicated toy we would have been able to put together in two seconds.”

Boys Girls Male Power

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“Never understood why there weren’t Day Girls.’ ‘Same as why there aren’t woman Masters.’ ‘Mistresses,’ Anne corrects. I wince, feel heat in my face, hotter than the day. ‘The women come out all crooked; it breaks them, burns ’em up. Girls is a bit different, Dain says.’ (...) ‘You know what I think?’ she says. ‘I guess I will in a moment.’ ‘I think they’re frightened of us. And…’ I look in her eyes, dark as the sky in the middle of the night. ‘They should be.”

Book:Day Boy

Source: Day Boy

“Don't let her fill your head. She's the destroying type.”

Book:Summer Darlings

Source: Summer Darlings

“Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.”

Life Philosophy Happiness Purpose Philosophical Aim Goals Fulfillment Purpose Of Life

Book:The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Khun Mae went to bed past midnight. After a few minutes, her mouth opened. Her hair was a dark cloud on the pillow. Up and up, she drifted above her bed, through the white mosquito nets, until she was as light as a sea bird. She drifted through the open flap of her window, into the balmy night air. Through the rainstorm, she flew, over the city of Bangkok and its blurry lights, until the stars themselves, guided this bird on her journey into the mountains, and above Tham Luang cave.”

Spiritual Women Adventure Young Adult Girls Buddha Superheroes Mysticism Mystics The Cave Dulong Mermaids

Author:Suzy Davies

“A trophy isn't special if it wasn't hard to get.”

Love Quotes Relationships Boys Reality Of Life Girls

Author:Lukas Lagersson

“In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So, tonight, I wish too, and the wish begins, "If only. . . If only this world loved living girls as much as it loved dead ones.”

Death Grief Girls Vengeance

Book:We Can Be Heroes

Source: We Can Be Heroes

“I had a girlfriend that would go out on the town for a ‘girls night out’ and would roll in after sunrise, claiming that she could not get a taxi home. I dumped her after several occurrences of it!”

Home Night Girlfriend Girls Sunrise Taxi Dumped Out Town Roll

Author:Steven Magee

“But [social media] is also the greatest enabler of relational aggression since the invention of language, and the evidence available today suggests that girls' mental health has suffered as a result.”

Mental Health Social Media Girls Aggression

Book:The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure