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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 842ac5b | People recognized you or they didn't, and it was unrelated to knowing you. Knowing you could just be your name or the street you lived on, your father's job. Recognizing you was understanding you had thoughts in your head, finding the same things funny or excruciating, remembering what you'd said months or even years after you'd said | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| a4e165a | Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this was when we made love, it was every anniversary, every reunion in an airport or train station, every reconciliation after a quarrel. This was the whole of our lives together. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 47c33cc | Her prettiness was factual and obvious, the way a flag was patriotic or a puppy was cute--not an interesting prettiness, but also not contingent on taste. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| f190a66 | get more stupider. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| e2db481 | The Wisconsin land, scraped and rearranged by glaciers, accosted by tornadoes, drenched and dried out and drenched again--it didn't care what I had done. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 31313d0 | we create our own reality--that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 24007b5 | as a single woman in my early thirties, I was careful not to coo excessively over other people's infants, lest it seem like I was telegraphing my desperation; the necessity of this precaution annoyed me, making me want to defiantly announce that I'd always liked babies, | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 50996c1 | Coordinating the calendars of five men in their forties is like herding cats. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 66e66b2 | I cried because I knew for certain that I was leaving home, and abruptly, I did not know if it was such a good idea- I realized that I, like my parents, had never believed I'd actually go. | moving-away | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 8359f2c | Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, then graduated with boyfriends- to give in to such love represents, for them, a capitulation or a betrayal, yet apparently the pull was so strong that they couldn't resist. That was what I didn't understand, how people made the leap from not mat.. | relationships romance sexuality | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 46bd48e | She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 397964a | Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second .. | academics classes college dumb intelligence school struggle | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 16b8a80 | It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitation... I spent those times hiding. Most of the other girls propped open their doors for visitation, but we kept ours shut. | depression dorm-life dorm-room lonliness sadness | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 867aa90 | I often messed up with people, it was true, but it rarely happened because I was reading them wrong; it was because I got nervous, or because I could see too clearly that I was not what they wanted. And, in fact, it was in falling short that I truly excelled. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 0395cbb | Dispatches and warnings from this side of the fame fence tend to go ignored, dismissed as either whining or false modesty; if they weren't ignored, if people listened, no one would ever again seek attention. But they always do, they strive and strive, hoping one day they, too, will have the luxury of lamenting their high profile. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| ffed549 | I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine ever running out of things to say. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 0af7415 | I've never tried to assert my views unless they are self-evident, not reliant on an argument from me to prove or disprove them: Breast-cancer awareness and AIDS prevention are good. Illiteracy is bad. Historic preservation will allow future generations to understand what life used to be like and in so doing will help Americans chart a path forward. The issues and decisions that are more complex I have left to others, to those confident of t.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 12c2cb6 | People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better. | life-quotes trauma | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 78a3a4e | Sure, I believed the worst of myself but - not really. I was always waiting to be proven wrong. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 5c5dc00 | reason to do anything other than bypass and ignore. And | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| e04f2a2 | Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this way, certainly not for the next three years; I'd been at Ault only seven months, and already, my loneliness felt physically exhausting. | depression loneliness | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| fe67df1 | No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. | Affectation | ||
| 279ee5e | Detective Lincoln knocked, said, "McGrath had serious encryption on his computer. We're going to have to send it out." "Send it to Quantico," I said. "I'll try to get it moved to the front of the line." "Right away," Lincoln said, and he left." | James Patterson | ||
| cd6e662 | Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer. | James Patterson | ||
| 91d5597 | It sounds like you sort of made that woman buy you the bear--" "Celeste." "Celeste, whether she wanted to or not. Do you see what I'm saying?" | James Patterson | ||
| 08b8ab1 | MRE. "Any you guys wanna take a moonlit stroll?" | James Patterson | ||
| a40cf4f | dark, arms pumping, stumbling | James Patterson | ||
| 98bf807 | Louis gave | James Patterson | ||
| 6e001eb | Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it | James Patterson | ||
| 9322fd3 | The guy who'd kissed me last week--that guy was gone. Sure, I'd rejected him, and sure, I didn't own him. But even so, it hurt. I missed the Richie who'd mooned over me. | James Patterson | ||
| cd2b479 | we decided to create a Nothing Place in the living room, it seemed necessary, because there are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear, we made this zone slightly larger so that one of us could lie down in it, it was a rule that you never would look at that rectangle of space, it didn't exist, and when you were in it, neither did you, for a while that was enough, but only for .. | something | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 76561f7 | None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 581198d | building had turned out to be murders. She | James Patterson | ||
| 893eef9 | loud laughter, phones ringing and the smell | James Patterson | ||
| c4dd7b4 | There are more places you haven't heard of than you've heard of! | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 19eef60 | There Affectation, with a sickly mien,Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen. | Affectation | ||
| cd103c0 | Affection exaggerates its own offences. | Affection | ||
| 7875042 | Cat lovers display an intensity lacking -- thank goodness -- in most human relationships. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 564cd51 | nu ne acorda nici o atentie si n-a intrebat nici macar o data despre ce discutam. Era sociabil doar cu alunele. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5698482 | Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It was the world that didn't fit. But how much happiness has ever resulted from correcting the record on the culpability of the world? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e2a36a9 | Dunya hep ayni kalirken olen insan sayisinin artmasi ve gunun birinde kimseyi gomecek yer kalmayacak olmasi tuhaf degil mi? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 458fdef | Peki guzel sarkilar neden uzuyor seni?" "Gercek olmadiklari icin." "Hic mi?" "Hicbir sey hem gercek hem de guzel degildir." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ad83f6c |
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Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 4276177 | The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued. | Jonathan Safran Foer |