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“Patches don’t look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, it’s because you’re hurting from something. I don’t know if you noticed, but that girl had a lot of holes.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“The shadow self is what lies beneath the makeup. It’s those ugly parts that you haven’t accepted about yourself. You hide those parts in the shadows until you’re ready.” Her face remained a haunting calm. “When you realize the scars are who you are, that there was nothing wrong with you and that you were beautiful all along - that’s when you decide to take the makeup off.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems there’s always something wrong with her.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“Soon, all the children were chanting it. “No school! No school!”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“Somehow her hula hoop had cut into the driver’s side door like the vehicle was made of cheese.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“She could spin it between her legs, skip with it, twirl it around her neck and transfer it from one arm to the other. Shelly hooped because she enjoyed it; it calmed her whenever she would have an argument or a bad day at school, and it also allowed her to think. Today, she needed to hoop more than ever.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“Shelly shook her head and made sure she had plenty of space so that she wouldn’t hit anything. As many times before, she kept the hoop close to her waist and then twirled it with small, tight bursts of speed. As the hoop gathered in momentum it started to give off a hum that soon took on a light blue illumination far brighter than the streetlamps. It was so bright, that it lit up the entire backyard.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“I’m afraid they’re not coming.” Abby said fearfully. “Our parents, our teachers – everyone! They’ve disappeared. That’s it. Lights out, Shelly. We’re on our own.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm. “I can fix you if you’re ever broken.”

“It’s no big deal. It’s kind of like a tattoo. It won’t hurt, not too much, just a few stitches and it’ll be all over. It’s really interesting how it’s done. You won’t believe where your soul hides. Go on, take a guess. Where do you think it is?”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.”

Source: Lights Out: Book 2

“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.”

Song Tales Goodbye Rope Lullaby Cautionary Tales Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.”

Pain Together Girl Felt Class Boys Baseball Winter Knees Mature Compliment Compelled Ache Rope Skirts Rushing Infuriating Jump Rope

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.”

People Long Known Long Time Training Crosses Hollywood Weight Balls Medicine Lifts Gym Good Work Workout Rope Trainers Good Workout Jump Rope

Author:Tim DeKay

“Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).”

Movement Activity Training Etc Jumping Rope Circuits Jogging Jump Rope Circuit Training

Author:Lee Haney

“The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.”

Bigs Waiting Steel Rope Cables Jump Rope

Author:Susan Messing