39 quotes found
“My feelings for Drew couldn't just disappear. They were ingrained within every fiber of my being, and I needed them just the same as I needed air to breathe.”
“All I could think about while driving after you was how it was about to happen all over again and that I would never be able to feel your warm skin under my hands or look into your beautiful blue e...”
“Ever since the first day Id seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.”
“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
“Have you ever met someone and felt like youve known them forever?”
“When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a sui...”
“Judging from the unfamiliar number, I assumed the text came from Shannon. If not, I would see who came by my house at 4:30 and go with it. Maybe it would be Mr. Darcy coming to pick me up in an ext...”
“The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the tw...”
“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other...”
“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgical...”
“The past is the occupational realm of historians—their daily work—and scholars have debated what their stance toward these social issues should be. As citizens and professionals, historians may nat...”
“It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.”
“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that inanimate objects were no less fallible than people. They, too, could be forgetful. ...”
“You’re everything to me—you always have been, and you always will be. Always and forever.”
“Feeling like I had to lose you for the second time...” He shook his head, and I thought I saw tears under his eyes. “I don’t think I could bear it. You’re everything to me, Elizabeth.”
“Ever since the first day I’d seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.”
“Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?”
“The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.”