42 Quotes by Justina Chen Headley

I didn’t have the language to communicate that to this little girl - or to communicate that beauty - real, everlasting beauty - lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

Wait!"What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."Cup coffee?"Taste it."What? Are you the coffee police or something?

Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

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.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?