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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cdd9c18 | Instead he looked dark and dangerous, a man on the sexual edge. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 8028079 | Everyone made mistakes. The measure of a person was what happened afterward. Later, | Susan Mallery | ||
| 6291a1b | The sliding doors opened, and a man entered the baggage area. A tall, dark-haired man with incredibly broad shoulders, a cowboy hat and a gaze so penetrating Phoebe knew he could probably tell what color her panties were. He moved with the kind of stride and purpose of someone who was never indecisive, confused or anything other than in charge. He was gorgeous. Adam Levine gorgeous. Of course. Any small shred of confidence she might have cu.. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 7b720b8 | The sliding doors opened, and a man entered the baggage area. A tall, dark-haired man with incredibly broad shoulders, a cowboy hat and a gaze so penetrating Phoebe knew he could probably tell what color her panties were. | Susan Mallery | ||
| b7e9624 | Buchanan," she said as she smiled at the small, white-haired woman lying in the hospital bed. "I'm Lori Johnston. I'll be your day nurse while you're convalescing." Gloria put down the book she'd been reading and glanced at Lori over her glasses. "I doubt that. Reid was going to be choosing the nurses who would care for me. I'm sure he found the idea hilarious. He only likes beautiful women with large breasts. Unfortunately they have IQs sm.. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 2fe866e | Eres un hombre, lamento decirtelo. Y es una pena que no haya ningun anciano de mal aliento, porque seria mejor que tener que casarme contigo. No puedo creer como he sido tan estupida de llegar a tomarte carino. Pero puedes estar seguro de que no volvere a cometer el mismo error. En cuanto encuentre la forma de dejar de quererte, te aseguro que voy a hacerlo. | Susan Mallery | ||
| ac78a8c | She said the wrong thing or sounded like a space alien with bad programming, when all she wanted was to be just like everyone else. "I meant are you okay now," | Susan Mallery | ||
| 7e4f188 | and demand an answer." "She didn't have as good a time" | Susan Mallery | ||
| c786b09 | Bailey Voss smiled at her daughter. Being | Susan Mallery | ||
| d219fdc | Darlin', if we only married who we deserved, then the world would be filled with single women," an older woman said." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 6e63751 | I like that you're emotionally broken," she said cheerfully. "It keeps the playing field level." "I'm not broken. I'm quirky." "Is that what we're calling it?" she asked." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 8e04ffc | Sarcasm is like Jell-O. It's always the right time and there's always room. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 513a69d | How was she supposed to find a man and fall in love when she couldn't even get asked out on a date? | Susan Mallery | ||
| d70cd1d | Hi," she managed to answer, then told herself she had to let go of the door handle. At some point he would be expecting her to walk into the restaurant with him and wouldn't that be awkward with her dragging a car behind? Jairus" | Susan Mallery | ||
| ea71087 | Weddings Out of the Box. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 8826535 | If you're not happy, it's all on you. If you want to find your way, be your own compass. | happiness | Susan Mallery | |
| 205bde3 | wants a second chance. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 67ceba2 | like a castle and from the other, it seemed to be a villa. The | Susan Mallery | ||
| b66d783 | You were right." "I usually am." His mouth twitched. "And modest." She shrugged. "I live with the burden." | Susan Mallery | ||
| f7664e2 | Better to keep trying until you find something that makes you happy rather than choose something now and hate your job for the next twenty years. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 54a06f7 | Sometimes life was hard, she thought, walking across the grass to be with her friends. Just when you least expected it, you had to start over. There was pain in that, but also satisfaction. With or without her wanting it to, life moved on. And she would, too. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 7d80b1a | Men get over things. Women remember forever. | Susan Mallery | ||
| d145c59 | People have trouble admitting when they act for purely selfish reasons. Telling the truth about something like that forces them to redefine their sense of self. So they make up a story. We all do it. Tell stories to explain the unexplainable. To get by. Sometimes the stories even help us survive that which would otherwise | Susan Mallery | ||
| 505e426 | On her worst days, she feared she was actually less. And that truth had defined the rest of her life. | Susan Mallery | ||
| befaa63 | I thought I loved him, nut know I am questioning that. Love is supposed to be a positive thing. With him, my world got smaller, not bigger. I made so many bad choices. I don't know if I want to. So I'm thinking on it... I hate that I was that girl. The one who built her life around a man. I thought I was smarter than that. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 2e7cdd7 | Be comfortable saying no, Pamela. At the same time, be comfortable saying yes. Every now and then life gives us an unexpected opportunity. How sad to walk away without sampling what is offered. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 58c106a | She had the sudden need to bake. To sink her fingers into warm dough, to smell yeast and create crusty rolls slathered with sweet butter. Or maybe a tart. Quiche with a flaky crust and filling of eggs, cheese and garlic and nuts. Or a brisket. She was back in Texas now. Something falling-apart tender with tang and spice. Grilled potatoes that tasted like heaven. | brisket ideas jenna-stevens | Susan Mallery | |
| 1307198 | How had I fetched up into this strange new life, where drunk foreigners shouted around me in the night, and all my clothes were dirty, and nobody loved me? | Donna Tartt | ||
| 34eb1f5 | Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e279603 | I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 77b3cc9 | we'd have to devise a plan, probably a rather Pyrrhic and unsatisfactory one. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6e8bf59 |
La gente muore, questo e un dato di fatto>> diceva la mamma. < |
italian-quotes storia | Donna Tartt | |
| 4607c6a | People gambled and golfed and planted gardens and traded stocks and had sex and bought new cars and practiced yoga and worked and prayed and redecorated their homes and got worked up over the news and fussed over their children and gossiped about their neighbors and pored over restaurant reviews and founded charitable organizations and supported political candidates and attended the U.S. Open and dined and travelled and distracted themselve.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| a8754d7 | From the sound of it, had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 5d34350 | I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me. | painting simile the-secret-history voyeur | Donna Tartt | |
| a832d43 | Years ago, in an old notebook, I wrote: "One of Julian's most attractive qualities is his inability to see anyone, or anything, in its true light." And under it, in a different ink, "maybe one of my most attractive qualities, as well(?)" -Richard" | Donna Tartt | ||
| 5ac1d56 | The most satisfying of languages, Latin. | latin | Donna Tartt | |
| bd2a2ac | Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still. | donna-tartt haunting laughter melancholy sad the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 389376a | I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu--you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student--but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approx.. | donna-tartt impostor simile the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| f8fc441 | Every new event - everything I did for the rest of my life - would only separate us more and more: days she was n longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6fea1d8 | But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive. | motive murder psychology the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 89c310d | There such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious. | ghosts memory | Donna Tartt | |
| 987aaa9 | All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I'd ever seen began to pop into my mind--the windowless room, the harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived. | donna-tartt memory the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 1cfecd8 | Elle ne s'interessait pas aux livres dans lesquels les enfants grandissaient, car (dans la vie comme en litterature) ce processus entrainait un affaiblissement accelere et inexplicable du caractere ; de facon totalement inattendue, les heros et les heroines renoncaient a leurs aventures pour un amour insipide, se mariaient et fondaient une famille, et, en general, se comportaient comme un troupeau de vaches. | enfants mariage | Donna Tartt |