295 quotes found
“So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.”
“At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.”
“You're not interesting in the least," she spat. "I don't need to be," I smiled. "That's what you need...And you're welcome to it.”
“Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.”
“Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?”
“Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.”
“The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you ...”
“Good or bad, if youre not normal, you cant have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.”
“She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she wont submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you ...”
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.”
“Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.”
“Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding oth...”
“Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.”
“Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.”
“The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.”
“Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and e...”
“Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connect...”
“My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.”
“I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.”
“Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.”