Grit Quote by Laurelin Paige

“The rough must be taken with the smooth.”

— john green

“He is as he always told me to be—a stone amid the waves; wet, yet unimpressed by all that swirls about him.”

— Pierce Brown

“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.”

— Don DeLillo

“That would probably kill me, so I knew he was exaggerating, but it made me feel soft inside. Nervous too, but soft. It's hard…

— Heidi Cullinan

“It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.”

— Jaycee Ford

“He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now…

— Jason Lloyd

“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“It’s in that moment I just see him for what he is: a jagged piece of glass that can never be glued back into…

— Bella Jewel

“He was hard lines, chiseled flesh, bronzed skin. I was a marshmallow melting in a cup of cocoa.”

— T.J. Klune

“There was no semblance of remorse on his stone-like face. He wanted me. That's all there was to it. And he would have me,…

— Baylee Crush

“His skin is so hard and rough, it’s like shaking a piece of tree bark.”

— Sophie Kinsella