177 quotes found
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
“Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you...”
“You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between ...”
“Life with Ilona was invariably lived on two levels, or rather in two simultaneous and parallel directions. On the one hand, your feet were always on the ground, you were always intelligently but no...”
“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
“Everything thing I have ever achieved in life I have accomplished on my own – I've earned it - even the bad stuff.”
“We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.”
“But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican on his father's side, even though he was raised Italian. Chili didn't care to be made anyway, ge...”
“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Wha...”
“I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Comple...”
“But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath...”
“I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.”
“Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.”
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
“I only know how to be one thing. And that’s me. Take it or leave it. I don’t really give a shit.”
“You know what, Abigail? You’re right—it is selfish. But there’s nothing inherently immature about making a selfish choice. It is hard to put what you know is right for you first, when you know peop...”
