165 quotes found
“The path of your life can change in an instant.”
“When in a frying pan, thank your stars. You will reminisce about it moments later, when you fall in the fire.”
“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”
“You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.”
“When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. ”
“My memory is good for some things and not others.”
“It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, shed scripted a whole conversation in Greek for her and Bapi to have as their gran...”
“We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.”
“Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”
“They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.”
“Now that we are born, let us live in a trance.”
“she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.”
“Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when t...”
“When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again.It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it,...”
“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she...”
“[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.”
“We're the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don't need to say so; it's just true. Sometimes it seems like we're so close we form one single complete person rather ...”
“If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out - and you wont even know it. Shewas three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained - unchainedspirit.”
“I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about P...”
“Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk fo...”
