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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6f7768a | Baby girl, you haven't done anything wrong. You've been through such a lot." "Well, in my sane state, I know that. Jack knew about my problems, and he just hung in there, just kept loving me and loving me, putting all my needs ahead of his own, promising me I'd be safe with him, that I could trust him. Oh, God," she said, tears coming in spite of the fact that she was so, so happy. "God, he's wonderful. Joey," she said in a near whisper, "h.. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 6a428c6 | Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go. | Robyn Carr | ||
| e68d271 | You can't try. Trying is a struggle and doing is an act. You can't witness the act of trying, but you can see the results of doing. Trying brings on stress because not only do you have the problem, but now you have all this frustration with it not going away just because you want it to. It's kind of like being told not to think of pink elephants--impossible. What you have to do is stop. You say to yourself, this is over for now. I'm done fo.. | Robyn Carr | ||
| c4633c4 | You know, Pastor, how we always say God won't give us more than we can handle?" "Yes, Lydie." She sighed. "I wish God didn't have such a high opinion of me." *" | Robyn Carr | ||
| cbbe9c4 | here is something you should probably know about women without being told. We don't want to have to tell a man we need to be wanted. We'd really like that to come naturally. We'd like a man to pursue us because he wants us, not because he's out of options. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 5dacae7 | I discriminate against stupid assholes! | Robyn Carr | ||
| 9626d3a | If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain | Robyn Carr | ||
| b10b3d3 | Life is the horror, abortion or miscarriage is the redemption. As Sophocles said so beautifully, 'Never to have been born is best, but once you've entered this world, return as quickly as possible to the place you came from. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2da7f29 | No interesa lo que me paso, si no las cicatricen que me marcan y distinguen | Isabel Allende | ||
| a02b98b | She tried to understand what it meant to carry winter on your back, to hesitate over every step, to confuse words you don't hear properly, to have the impression that the rest of the world is going about in a great rush; the emptiness, frailty, fatigue, and indifference toward everything not directly related to you, even children and grandchildren, whose absence was not felt as it once had been, and whose names you had to struggle to rememb.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d805a85 | Scrivo, lei ha scritto, che la memoria e fragile e il corso di una vita e molto breve e tutto avviene cosi in fretta, che non riusciamo a vedere il rapporto tra gli eventi, non possiamo misurare le conseguenze delle azioni, crediamo nella finzione del tempo, nel presente, nel passato, nel futuro, ma puo anche darsi che tutto succeda simultaneamente... | Isabel Allende | ||
| 1ca0f69 | I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences. | resourcefulness | Isabel Allende | |
| 837e384 | But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did. I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 9c27cc0 | Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 94e6b0e | I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 27a69fa | If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8333b5f | To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle. | Marian Keyes | ||
| cd122cb | Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling. | Marian Keyes | ||
| db03492 | Perhaps one day in the far-off future, when I'm about eighty-nine, I might look back and say, "When I was a young-ish woman I fell in love with an intense charismatic man. He was way out of my league and when it ended it nearly killed me, but every woman should experience that sort of love once in their lives. Only once, mind, you mightn't survive a second bout. A bit like dengue fever, that way." I" | Marian Keyes | ||
| ed4d4ee | I couldn't stand to be alone. But there was no one that I wanted to be with. And no matter where I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter who I was with, no matter what I was doing, no matter where I was, it was wrong, I didn't want it. Every night, I sat with crowds of people and I felt totally alone. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 2a80600 | Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans? | Marian Keyes | ||
| f48f882 | That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy! | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8a43f36 | Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together | Marian Keyes | ||
| f7e9be4 | sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It | Marian Keyes | ||
| 19240f8 | Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The | Marian Keyes | ||
| 7662f47 | Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 10f356d | I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings. | Marian Keyes | ||
| da25e0d | Some people can make their ears move--it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick. | Marian Keyes | ||
| b4cfe39 | Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In" | Marian Keyes | ||
| 5dac186 | dreaming. But I know it's real." "When I woke up this morning" -- | Marian Keyes | ||
| c89ac22 | But being a survivor is hard bloody work, harder than it looks, and I think I might be running low on survivor juice. Given the choice, I'd far rather a pampered life of indulgence where nothing bad ever happens. | Marian Keyes | ||
| be8d029 | This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honourably, He may be clearing you out for some new delight. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8c4b880 | No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last. | Marian Keyes | ||
| da0d96b | A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8318d50 | Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I'm forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there's no way I'd reveal this elderly body to a new man. It'd be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 0d42634 | I did all kinds of reckless things that look great if you're driving a fast car. I pulled away form traffic lights with a roar, leaving the other drivers staring bitterly after me - that was called "burning them up" said Daniel. I drove out in front of other cars - Daniel said that was called "cutting them up" and while we were stuck in a traffic jam, I winked and smiled at attractive men in other cars - Daniel said that was called "acting .. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 259d687 | A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died. | life love moving-on sad wife | Marian Keyes | |
| 9885c78 | Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 1add4f1 | Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets. | Marian Keyes | ||
| ca41c80 | Is this what life is all about? To bring us face to face with our worst fears until they no longer scare us? | Marian Keyes | ||
| 5244548 | They seem like a different race to me and I make sure never to get into disagreements with them, because any puny thing I say gets dashed on the rocks of their robust, shouty certainty. | opinionated pushy sisterhood sisters timid | Marian Keyes | |
| d86c7fc | Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place." | Marian Keyes | ||
| 990c6dc | I wake with a thought: This is my life. I've only got one. I should live it the way I want | Marian Keyes | ||
| 9ec52f1 | I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee. | Marian Keyes |