519 quotes found
“man can not live on chocolate .... but women can”
“Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.”
“She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life sto...”
“It almost feels like at some point life whacks you on top of the head and hands you a list of all the things you can keep. The list is surprisingly long. You can keep letters. You can keep trying. ...”
“Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, thats all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.”
“I don't think I remember my first memory”
“That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you...”
“It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again...”
“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.”
“I believe now that were the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat every day. Youre unworthy. Youre ugly. Youre inadequate.”
“That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.”
“When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.”
“My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.”
“It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting i...”
“Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie."Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that i...”
“He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.”
“Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?”
“There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around ...”
“I do not care what I labeled, as long as I am heard.”
“I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.”
