There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. —Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I laughed because he told me funny stories and it was so easy and light. I realized how long it has been since I've enjoyed that most simple of pleasures: company and conversation on a sunny afternoon. —Kate Morton in The Secret Keeper More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. —Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's an old saying that if everyone threw their problems in a pile, and you saw what they all were, you'd go racing back to take your own. —Helen Hardt in Possession More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. —George Will More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants. —Min Jin Lee in Pachinko More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story. —Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so…simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting. —Debbie Macomber in 5-B Poppy Lane More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see. —Leah Raeder in Unteachable More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else. —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in We Should All Be Feminists More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. She missed being little, when they were the all-knowing gods of her world. —Robin Benway in Far from the Tree More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be. —Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell the Wolves I'm Home More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you don't know what you're missing until you find it. —Vi Keeland in Bossman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude. —Isabel Allende in The House of the Spirits More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email