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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a4f211 | And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a little kid needed you for everything and wasn't afraid to say so. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| d783972 | Kissing her just then felt perfectly normal and completely self-explanatory, the only possible course of action. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| e8e602a | Unburdening, she'd told Laurie about a vision she'd had when she was four or five years old. Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, she'd tiptoed downstairs and seen a fat bearded man standing in front of her family's tree, checking items off a list. He wasn't wearing a red suit--it was more like a blue bus driver's uniform--but she still recognized him as Santa Claus. She watched him for a while, then snuck back upstairs, her body filled with a.. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| cb1862e | There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear. | question underwear | Tom Perrotta | |
| 0b9cb58 | They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 3bed2a5 | she remained unreconciled to the loss of her electric toothbrush. She'd pined for it for weeks before realizing that it was more than the sensation of a clean mouth that she missed--it was her marriage, all those years of mindless domestic happiness, long, crowded days that culminated with her and Kevin standing side by side in front of the dual sinks, battery-operated wands buzzing in their hands, their mouths full of minty froth. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 0a9ac6a | Not that they would, but if any of the other mothers had asked how it was that Sarah, of all people, had ended up married, living in the suburbs, and caring full-time for a small child, she would have blamed it all on a moment of weakness. At least that was how she described it to herself, though the explanation always seemed a bit threadbare. After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another? Most people just fell in .. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 30a0fb3 | It's like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs. | yemen | Tom Perrotta | |
| 680c733 | these leftover memories | Tom Perrotta | ||
| e10a5ad | if the world were a museum of memories, a collection of places she'd outgrown. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| c04142a | Ah, Milk Duds. The official candy of pissed-off fat women everywhere. | Susan Donovan | ||
| 7a7c6e5 | He realized that the woman at his side - the one with the sweaty red face and the sweet smile - had pried open his heart, one day at a time. | Susan Donovan | ||
| 6e0d54d | When the time is right, you might right, you might consider telling Theo that you've been in love with him for a long time now." Lucy sniffed. "And I'm supposed to do this without Milk Duds? As if!" | Donovan Susan | ||
| 0735c5a | What if it turns out that after going through the evaluation, I find out I'm not on the spectrum. That I really am just weird. I don't know if I can handle that. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 6f5bc3a | Ian took off his glasses and slid them into the pocket of his jacket. "I like those," she said. "Put them back on." "They'll only be in the way when I kiss you." "Who said we were going to kiss?" "I did. Katie, you must pay closer attention." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| d6e3a04 | A couple times a week she went to the library and returned with stacks of books. She read faster than anyone I knew. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 442eb95 | He had the whitest teeth I'd ever seen, which made me think his kisses would taste like Pep O Mint Life Savers. Joe's kisses probably tasted like pot and Funyuns. And failure. | funny kiss love | Tracey Garvis Graves | |
| 1128c24 | I'd spent the preceding twenty days swirling in a paralyzing vortex of loud sounds and bad smells, overwhelming stimuli, and confusing social norms, and I'd had just about all I could take. | overwhelmed | Tracey Garvis Graves | |
| 2e99ca6 | Get a couple of rooms and charge everything to them," my dad said. "We only need one room, Dad." He paused for a second. "Oh. Okay." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| e24d420 | Stop that. This is not about sex. It's about boundaries. It's about equality." "If you're going to stare at it, it's going to wake up and say hi." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| b46c92c | I often think about the island. When the kids are older, we'll have quite a story to tell them. We'll edit, of course. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| ff67ae3 | All you have in your kitchen is a coffeemaker." She hopped up on the counter. "Well, now I have a coffeemaker and a beautiful woman. What more do I need?" | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 5b876fc | In my experience, people treat the ones they love the worst. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| e9641b1 | I love you. I will never stop loving you. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| ba4c2d3 | Is this the dating pool you want to swim around in? I mean really, Katie. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 18e78b6 | Well, how do you usually meet women?" "They have a way of suddenly appearing. Like the birds in that song." She had to think about that for a minute. "You mean 'Close to You' by the Carpenters?" | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 87fd84a | You know that saying, 'Act now, apologize later?' I'm pretty much the poster boy." Kate looked at Ian. "You think?" | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 39d1395 | It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to. | Trevanian | ||
| 7cef844 | However, little by little, I am coming to the view that what I mistook for humility was, in fact, an accurate evaluation of your worth. | Trevanian | ||
| 85ed90e | No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life. | switzerland | Trevanian | |
| ea3f04f | Sikilmak ve kizmak benim dostumun kullandigi duygulardan degildir. | Trevanian | ||
| 8d10ed8 | Indeed, my first interest in the pioneer work of Doctor Freud sprang, not from a concern for persons wounded in their collisions with reality, but from my personal curiosity about the nature of creativity and the springs of motivation. So | Trevanian | ||
| 92b21c9 | Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish | Trevanian | ||
| 2847f44 | The years passed unnoticed and unremembered, and one autumn morning I found myself suddenly forty-five years old. It was a time for weighing youthful hopes against mature accomplishment, for it was quite certain that I had by then done all I was ever going to do. Sitting alone at my desk that evening of my forty-fifth birthday I asked that least original of introspective questions: Where had it all gone? And the somewhat less banal question.. | Trevanian | ||
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| f6a637d | Zevk, okuma ve rahatlik yeterliydi Nicholai icin. (...) Eglence gibi bir uyusturucu maddeye de gereksinim duymuyordu. | Trevanian | ||
| 8d3a3d1 | gun olup beni sevecegi dusuncesiyle avunamazdim. genctim, romantiktim ama,aski zamanla buyuyup gelisen bir sey olarak goremiyordum. maddelerine uyulacak bir anlasma degildi ask.ya bir butundu, sizi tumuyle icine alirdi ya da ask degildi. baska bir seydi belki.daha mantikli,daha sakin bir sey. kendine gore yine guzel bir sey... ama o seyi istemiyordum ben." "bana da acimakla vakit kaybetme montjean. ben hayatta kendi durumumu dikkatle saptad.. | Trevanian | ||
| f3755ae | The shabby look was not his tailor's fault; the Arab's body was not designed for clothes requiring posture and discipline. | Trevanian | ||
| 04f0e12 | Obtuseness was its own defense | Trevanian | ||
| 2675fce | a man is happiest when there is a balance between his needs and his possessions. Now the question is: how to achieve this balance. One could seek to do this by increasing his goods to the level of his appetites, but that would be stupid. It would involve doing unnatural things--bargaining, haggling, scrimping, working. Ergo? Ergo, the wise man achieves the balance by reducing his needs to the level of his possessions. And this is best done .. | Trevanian | ||
| e03c4b6 | Vi ar allesammans fordomda", sa hon, "men somliga av oss har tagit av oss ogonbindlarna och sett att inget finns att se. Det ar en slags fralsning." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| ed9c075 | I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go | christ life-lessons love | Flannery O'Connor | |
| dad36e6 | That's not the way he told it, Tarwater said. He said that when the schoolteacher was seven years old, he had good sense but later it dried up. His daddy was an ass and not fit to raise him and his mother was a whore. She ran away from here when she was eighteen years old. It took her that long? the stranger said in an incredulous tone. My, she was kind of a ass herself. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 3736532 | You were reading my Flannery O'Connor the other day." He took a sip of his drink. "When I was ill." "The short stories? I can't believe you noticed that." "I couldn't help but notice. You left the book out on the side. I can't pick it up." "Ah." "So don't read rubbish. Take the O'Connor stories home. Read them instead." I" | Jojo Moyes |