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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2270206 | Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2d3f22b | Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3ba6ba8 | If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for | nicholas-sparks soulmates the-longest-ride | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 8ea96ea | I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up mi.. | home life new-york nicholas-sparks the-last-song | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 6048cde | Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 78c465f | THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me--not forever, but periodically. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 49c9fdf | This is a little awkward," I said, "but my mother just ran over the rabbit." "Ran over?" "As in roadkill. We're not sure what to do about it." "Where are you?" "Giovichinni's, buying lunch meat." "And the rabbit?" "Gone. He was with two other guys. They scooped him up off the road and drove away with him." There was a long silence on the phone. "I'm fucking speechless," Morelli finally said." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ee02cfd | Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3290464 | When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder | queer wonder | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| e0bd4d2 | He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. | moriarty sherlock-holmes spider | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 1243109 | You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. | mother women | Zadie Smith | |
| fffbeba | Each couple is its own vaudeville act. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 58f2bae | Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing. | Libba Bray | ||
| fe27692 | So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all. | siblings | Libba Bray | |
| 57bcb4c | Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let's face it, was once a towering tree crowned wi.. | writing | Ann Patchett | |
| 6710882 | I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior. | savior | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 19482b5 | Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2858d1e | Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ee74808 | A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e45f33b | You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. | truth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| e6a06f8 | Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6921551 | Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 250a124 | I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him. | middle-age nostalgia parents | Bill Bryson | |
| e963fae | Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 120cf92 | Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 08f8e02 | She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b2d2c4b | And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise. | good | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0e976d4 | It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| a0de2fd | I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a2a46ba | Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that. | the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| eb1ab7b | Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 13ddead | Life is the train and not the station. | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| 5c55394 | I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 384cb42 | When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2571c15 | The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e39b23f | I have scars on my hand from touching certain people. Once, in the park, when Frannie was still in the carriage, I put my hand on the downy pate of her head and left it there too long. Another time, at Loew's Seventy-second Street, with Zooey during a spooky movie. He was about six or seven, and he went under the seat to avoid watching a scary scene. I put my hand on his head. Certain heads, certain colors and textures of human hair leave p.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 55e4835 | Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron, the sponsors were morons, and I just damn well wasn't going to shine my shoes for them, I told Seymour. I said they couldn't see them anyway, where we sat. He said to shine them anyway. He said to shine them for the Fat Lady. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 00de610 | If God had wanted somebody with St. Francis's consistently winning personality for the job in the New Testament, he'd've picked him, you can be sure. As it was, he picked the best, the smartest, the most loving, the least sentimental the most un itative master he could possibly have picked. And when you miss seeing that, I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim . To endow.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b8bfa09 | I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 41ba530 | To me she looks like a big black ant - a big black ant in an original Christian Lacroix - eating a urinal cake and I almost start laughing, but I also want to keep her at ease. I don't want her to get second thoughts about finishing the urinal cake. But she can't eat any more and with only two bites taken, pretending to be full, she pushes the tainted plate away, and at this moment I start feeling strange. Even though I marveled at her eati.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 0a93056 | Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine?" (But isn't that what people do?)" -- | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 859e236 | And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead end. "Where are we going?" I asked. "I don't know" he said "just driving". "But this road doesn't go anywhere" I told him. "That doesn't matter." "What does?" I asked, after a little while. "Just that we're on it, dude." He said." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1ada9af | I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here. | reality | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| dfacef3 | It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break. | Jonathan Franzen |