302 quotes found
“But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick...”
“Feel free to like & share!I have been writing now for 3 years, managed to publish 12 books, it's coming along. I can really use you guys support. A great amount of being a writer is having the abil...”
“Do not judge a book by its price!”
“Was it possible to fall for someone youd met only once and communicated with only through phone, chat, and text? I had sleepless nights wondering, and every time I thought about it, the answer was ...”
“Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone...”
“He leaned into Le Voirs face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we wh...”
“I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I ...”
“Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul is pushed further away...”
“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”
“Here is a piece of advice. Never pay attention to what a man says when he comes. Anything might be blurted out at that moment, and it rarely means anything.”
“I think you can fall in love many times, and it depends on what stage you are in your life. Your soulmate requirements or deal-breakers change with you.”
“Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our life against tha...”
“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that's not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration...”
“Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where were unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. Thats where you get to show who...”
“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, We must know, we shall know!, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”
“I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.”
“There are no such thing as ghosts. Joseph replied.There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are. Grace quipped flippantly.”
“Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?”
“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and wel...”
“The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.”
