Reading! Quotes
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'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.
Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.
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.
Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.
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.
At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.
If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.
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.
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.
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank
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.
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.
Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.
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.
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.
I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.
Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.
During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.
As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.
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.
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
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.
In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.
Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.
... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.
Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.
