Reading! Quotes
I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.
we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.
During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.
I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.
Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.
Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us.
When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice
You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.
My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.
He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.
Son, my dad said, every man needs a bitter, resentful woman in his life. Because there's nothing more touching to a mother's heart than to know that her son thinks of her constantly.
I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to family and friends.
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.
Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.
Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.
The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.
I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.
I'll only tell you what matters. And, the truth is, everything matters.
I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.
People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.
I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.
If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.
If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.
At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.
She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.
One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.
Everyday's a honeymoon. Cuz darling, I love you to the moon.