250 quotes found
Author · American · 1950
American author (born 1950)
“The wounded recognized the wounded.”
“Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.”
“New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really g...”
“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
“I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.”
“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if...”
“I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.”He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her.“Why? Why am I the one?”“Because my life opened up, ...”
“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the e...”
“That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.”
“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
“Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.”
“Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every w...”
“love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for...”
“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
“Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.”
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
“A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”
“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no...”
“I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford....”
