Wherever art appears, life disappears. —Robert Motherwell More about this quote Tags: life art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: quality preparation speeches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. —Franklin P. Jones More about this quote Tags: humor children women husbands Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: love paradise tenderness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. —Samuel Richardson More about this quote Tags: love power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's why we broke up, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place. —Daniel Handler in Why We Broke Up More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's funny — when people call you "shy," they usually smile. Like it's cute, some funny little habit you'll grow out of when you're older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt — really being shy, not just unsure at first — they wouldn't smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It's not cute at all. —Claudia Gray in Evernight More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated. —Gayle Forman in Where She Went More about this quote Tags: understanding hate anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift―or curse, perhaps―of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody? —Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants More about this quote Tags: love relationships perception inferiority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be. —Sarah Dessen in That Summer More about this quote Tags: time memory perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's the most awful feeling in the world to love someone who can't love you back. —Marie Coulson in Bound Together More about this quote Tags: feeling love reciprocation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again. —Kim Harrison in and the Undead More about this quote Tags: memory regret forgetting ignoring dealing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much. —John Green in An Abundance of Katherines More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. —Lichty and Wagner More about this quote Tags: politics money blame irresponsibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email