64 quotes found
“I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but s...”
“Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jell...”
“He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.”
“All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.”
“We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.”
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality...”
“At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reection ared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring nger aimed at m...”
“One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.”
“You can like an immoral character because shes interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.”
“The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically ...”
“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were ...”
“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publ...”
“Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know y...”
“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how like...”
“There will be days you wish youd never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when its only days of regret and notmonths.”
“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”
“I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could stri...”
“My parents have always worried that Id take Amy too personally they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I cant fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: ...”
“Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.”
“I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.”
