Quotes From "All Fall Down" By Jennifer Weiner

I had started on the marriage and motherhood beat by accident with a post on my personal, read only by friends, blog called ‘Fifty Shades of Men’. I had written it after buying Fifty Shades of Grey to spice up what Dave and I half-jokingly called our grown up time, and had written a meditation on how the sex wasn’t the sexiest part of the book. “Dear publishers, I will tell you why every woman with a ring on her finger and a car seat in her SUV is devouring this book like the candy she won’t let herself eat.” I had written. “It’s not the fantasy of an impossibly handsome guy who can give you an orgasm just by stroking your nipples. It is instead the fantasy of a guy who can give you everything. Hapless, clueless, barely able to remain upright without assistance, Ana Steele is that unlikeliest of creatures, a college student who doesn’t have an email address, a computer, or a clue. Turns out she doesn’t need any of those things. Here is the dominant Christian Grey and he’ll give her that computer plus an i Pad, a beamer, a job, and an identity, sexual and otherwise. No more worrying about what to wear. Christian buys her clothes. No more stress about how to be in the bedroom. Christian makes those decisions. For women who do too much–which includes, dear publishers, pretty much all the women who have enough disposable income to buy your books–this is the ultimate fantasy: not a man who will make you come, but a man who will make agency unnecessary, a man who will choose your adventure for you. . Jennifer Weiner

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side. Ally Carter

The obvious, " Noah goes on, a little out of breath, "being that he is probably some super secret assassin or something. And I'm not as tough as I look."" That's OK, " I tell him. "I'm way tougher than you look. Ally Carter

Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff. Ally Carter

Grace, if you have used an iron within the last six months, I will eat that fork, " Ms. Chancellor says." Which one?" I try to tease. "You've got a lot of forks to choose from."" From which to choose, Grace. Do not end your sentences in prepositions, dear."" Of course, I totally see what you're getting at. I mean, at what you're getting. Ally Carter

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her. Ally Carter

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork. Ally Carter

I've attended seven schools in ten years, " I explain. "So you can rest assured I know you. You're the girl who thinks being cruel is the same thing as being witty. You think being loud is the same thing as being right. And, most of all, you're the girl who is very, very pretty. And also very, very..common. trust me. There's at least one of you in every school." I watch her features shift. "Oh. Wait. Did you think you were unique? . Ally Carter

For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down. Ally Carter

Congratulations, " I tell her with a slight bow. "I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to go. Ally Carter

I know. I'm sorry." And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can't be. That girl is dead. Ally Carter

No! I need to go home, " I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead. Ally Carter

Did you see Grace is back with us?" Megan did see me. She saw me jump off a cliff and crawl under an Iranian fence. Megan has seen plenty. And I can't help but hold my breath, waiting on her answer." Hi, " Megan says, turning to me. "Welcome home." Home. The word hits me. I've spent all my life thinking that I didn't have one, but now that I'm back I can't deny that I've spent more my life on Embassy Row than in any other place-that maybe it just wasn't my mother's childhood home. In a way, it's mine, too. Ally Carter

Ok, " he says. "First lesson." Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. "in the United States, " he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewalk. "Out of the United States." Quickly, he jumps back toward me. "In the United States." Another jump across the threshold. "Out of the United States. In. Out. In --""Is this the part where I hit you?. Ally Carter

I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely no place I'm anxious to return to. But this is different. I'm not trying to fall asleep in someplace new; I'm trying to fall asleep in someplace that's old. Ally Carter

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for. Ally Carter