128 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.”
“Running away can also be running to.”
“A relationship could be a place to hide too.”
“It's some twisted, limited, grocery-store mentality, where people have to be dairy products or vegetables or frozen foods for us to be able to understand them and feel safe. Maybe we've just become...”
“I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure...”
“Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or...”
“What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short,' everything is fine...”
“If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
“I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isnt a final destination. You dont one day get there and get to stay.”
“I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others." "And?" I asked. "Those that forgive others too eas...”
“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”
“often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone elses loss.”
“If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”
“We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.”
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. Its the silence, sure, but its also the certainty of all those books, the...”
“If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)”
“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy household--that feeling of being perched and listening, t...”
“Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then sudde...”
“You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have the past and future colliding in the present, your ...”
“Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.”
