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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ca8f83 | it felt like the waking-up moment between dream and daylight where everything merged and mingled just as it was about to change, all in the same, fluid, euphoric slide: | Donna Tartt | ||
| 73ceb87 | I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 423dab4 | I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 2036c51 | I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1e7bc88 | And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 89c44a9 | happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end--and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy? | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4a707c0 | I was jarred - a little spooked as well - at so blatant a reference to something referred to, by mutual agreement, almost exclusively with codes, catchwords, a hundred different euphemisms. "It was the most important night of my life," he said calmly. "It enabled me to do what I've always wanted most." "Which is?" "To live without thinking." | Donna Tartt | ||
| ae25010 | I don't care when I was born, if I'm 50, 60 or 70. It's important that I am alive. | Amanda Lear | ||
| 6207130 | The light of long ago is different from the light of today, and yet here, in this house, I'm reminded of the past at every turn. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 31825a7 | If you were going to be pulling your to-hundred-square-foot tiny home all over the place, | Susan Mallery | ||
| d514a7f | But if your two-hundred-square-foot home was going to stay in one place, | Susan Mallery | ||
| 3b75752 | She hadn't wanted to make plain cinnamon cookies. She'd wanted to blend in ginger and try something fun like rosewater. She'd thought about going to the market and buying fresh spring vegetables, then making a red wine risotto with the crunchy, delicious vegetables served with a perfect roasted chicken stuffed with garlic and spices. | dinner jenna-stevens | Susan Mallery | |
| 09ea787 | NATALIE DROVE TO work because floating there would cause people to ask too many questions. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 82f634d | I try not to be mean or hurtful, but otherwise I'm not much into self-editing. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 3545930 | Do you think age matters when it comes to friendship? | Susan Mallery | ||
| c11e4e9 | How would you have handled Char at her birthday party? | Susan Mallery | ||
| 06d6aa5 | Did she have a right to be angry? | Susan Mallery | ||
| d7628b7 | Steven tucked a strand of hair behind Hayley's ear as he laughed at something she said. Pam watched them, wondering if there was something going on, then dismissed the notion. Hayley was married. Steven would never get in the way of that. | Susan Mallery | ||
| c6999cb | She picked at the place mat in front of her. "They were all in law enforcement. It was some kind of sheriff's convention. Your biological father--Earl Haynes--was a sheriff." | Susan Mallery | ||
| dbe7599 | art was an important way to expand the mind. It wasn't about ability but being able to think in different ways. To have tangible proof that there are dozens of ways to solve a single problem. | Susan Mallery | ||
| d16d18c | June 23 is World Giraffe Day, | Susan Mallery | ||
| 4063bc2 | Thanks. But I have to do | Susan Mallery | ||
| 243458c | Sex was easy--it was relationships that were a bitch | Susan Mallery | ||
| 67ae419 | I swear on my mother's beating heart." "That's a serious swear." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 1f89a16 | Being happy or not is up to you. A man can't make a woman happy. It's like asking a cat to grow wings. It's not in their nature. Happiness is in here. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 5ce7b51 | Cats should only have canned food. They don't have a strong instinct to drink water and dry food gives them kidney problems | Susan Mallery | ||
| 4fc4ed2 | won't last, it's | Donna Tartt | ||
| 462a369 | I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them? | Amanda Lear | ||
| e01f4f7 | I suppose I'm saying that loving someone should be a positive experience for both parties. That being around the person you love shouldn't make your life worse. That when you're with that person, you are seeking to be better than you would be without him. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 56b61c1 | People should be together, preferably surrounded by those they loved. | Susan Mallery | ||
| f45acac | I have a bunch of crap in my hair just so I can look nice, and I'm wearing shoes that are going to cripple me. I | Susan Mallery | ||
| 8bef70e | automaton | Susan Mallery | ||
| 59b25f5 | want. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 4eff5d3 | Nick was definitely swoonworthy, but she had to be real. He was not for her. He was a big-time artist guy on his way to Dubai. She was a small-town girl who ran a destination wedding business. They had nothing in common. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 300f80c | him out onto | Susan Mallery | ||
| e484442 | Giraffe gestation is about thirteen to fifteen months. | Susan Mallery | ||
| bd08ddf | Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy | Susan Mallery | ||
| 2271845 | Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy! theme until the need passes. | Susan Mallery | ||
| ec4c8b4 | From failure, success. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 88ec63a | To belong. To have family, to feel safe and loved and be the most important person in someone's life. | Susan Mallery | ||
| ca1d06b | Sanctimonious, | Susan Mallery | ||
| 40d85f4 | My grandma taught me a lot of dirty tricks. I know places to dig in a knuckle and make a grown man scream like a little girl. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 40612a1 | farcical, | Susan Mallery | ||
| 32a46fd | Natalie leaned toward her. "You're so convinced he's going to reject you that you're pushing him away before he can hurt you more. You know how to live with the pain of unrequited love. You've been doing it forever. But the pain of being rejected is unimaginable. You're risking your future happiness because of your fear. That's kind of dumb." | Susan Mallery |