Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. —Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage More about this quote Tags: love honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand. —Elin Hilderbrand in The Identicals More about this quote Tags: children pain loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: live learn Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: laughter law evidence courtroom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer. —Herbert J. Muller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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