79 quotes found
“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”
“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”
“You cant take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.”
“You can’t take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.”
“The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.”
“Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.”
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make mo...”
“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting i...”
“What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. ”
“We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold ...”
“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had go...”
“It always took my breath away, he said, that the five of us could have found one anotheragainst such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up Do you see now why ...”
“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”
“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise sp...”
“We think of mortality so little these days...I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,As you are now so ...”
“To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to thin...”
“Weve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, were so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.”
“So what are you thinking?" I asked. I meant about the case, obviously, but Cassie was in a giddy mood--she generates more energy than most people, and she'd been sitting indoors most of the day. "W...”
“She [88yo Mrs Fitzgerald] crossed herself and patted my arm. "And you're after coming all the way from England to find out who done it? Aren't you great? God bless you, young fella." "The old heret...”
“I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.”
“We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.”
“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”
“People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards...”
“A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.”
