44 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”
“Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.”
“Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.”
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone elsegrants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.”
“Wait for the man who will do anything to be your everything. And will continue to do it after he has your heart.”
“The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.”
“Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”
“Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.”
“Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.”
“His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing.”
“And when one loves kills another, can you still love the one who's left?”
“I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.”
“I've put one foot before another and the years have passed, the time marked by late rent payments and the appearance of wrinkles - tiny ones, on the corners of my eyes. They are a reminder of my yo...”
“Women rarely need the things they want”
“My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I...”
“I thought women enjoyed affairs. I thought they got sparks of pleasure at the buzz of their phone, thought they ran around with a glow, their world suddenly on fire with new love. I thought they we...”
“I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.”
“Sex should be about mutual enjoyment, connection, the borrowing from another’s fire at a moment when you want it most.”
“On the bed - now,” he ordered, yanking the band of his shorts and dropping them on the floor. “I need to fuck right now more than I need to breath.”
“Get up and get on the bed in the Master. I’m going to fuck the hell out of you.”
