286 quotes found
Author · American · 1970
American author (born 1970)
“If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere y...”
“And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some ro...”
“But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. A...”
“A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.”
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.”
“Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.”
“When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it w...”
“But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?”
“For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”
“Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was saved?”
“Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because s...”
“I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia”
“I'm surrounded by people and feel alone”
“Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.”
“I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No...”
“I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.”
“Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.”
“Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”
“It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.”
“I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”