What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were. —Elin Hilderbrand in Beautiful Day More about this quote Tags: life present absence fondness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own. —Leah Raeder in Cam Girl More about this quote Tags: closure meaning-making Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. —William Ritter in Beastly Bones More about this quote Tags: man women greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. —Saint Augustine More about this quote Tags: humor purity indulgence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About the way he made me feel. The way he'd always made me feel. Safe. Loved. Cherished. And with just enough danger in his actions to keep every day exciting. —Samantha Whiskey in Rookie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. —Anne Lamott in Grace (Eventually) More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. —Rick Polito More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's crazy, that the defining moment of your life can be nothing to someone else. Like an infatuation, an unrequited love, every bit of you is drawn to it, orbits that heaviness at the center of your universe, everything you think and feel revolving around it and yet, nobody knows. Even the one who caused it. Especially the one who caused it. —Leah Raeder in Black Iris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. —Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This world doesn't need showy champions. It needs people who are good, people who do good, even if nobody will ever know. —William Ritter in The Dire King More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing. —Leah Raeder in Unteachable More about this quote Tags: possession wanting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me. —Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. —Orson Welles More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends. —Leah Raeder in Unteachable More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull―because when people have seen you at your worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. —Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email