Quotes About Acceptance

I cannot imagine a greater motivation to pray than that God enjoys having me in His presence. He enjoys my company. He delights in listening to me! He doesn't get bored with my repeated requests. He doesn't moralize me if I get it wrong in what I ask for. He doesn't laugh at me if I put out silly, even impertinent, requests. He never makes me feel stupid. There is no rejection, only total acceptance.

I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it! -Michel Glass

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go. Ooh, me, too, Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. What? It's what girls do. Get over it.

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.

I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.

I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right? No, he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not. I'm happy with you. She heard the smile in his voice this time. So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half? I'm considering it, she said. And she was.

Nice Shane said. I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey. No you're not. Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding.

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there's always a geek.

His eyes ignited into a color found only in the heart of the sun. ''Yes?'' ''Yes, already. I'll marry you. Yes. Hell, yes. What am I, stupid?

Giving up is always easy. It's the peace that follows that sucks.

I'm as good a Catholic as you, Jess said. I just don't hold with making the world into copies of what I like.

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn't.

Hello again, I said to death. I was resigned, if not ready.

Maybe only the truly damaged can accept each other in the way we do.

Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.

Never too late or too early for pancakes. If you don't believe that, you can turn around and go, because we are never going to be friends.