Still, as that year went on, I had trouble trusting that things were really getting better.
—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen
No matter how attractive a person's potential may be, you have to date their reality.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
I've lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said goodbye.
—Ann Aguirre in Grimspace
I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or exaggerate it, or adjust it at all. I simply loved him as if he were my one and only lover, and he loved me too with the same simplicity of appetite and desire which made me wonder what I thought I had been doing all those years when I had been dealing in the false coin of vanity and lust. I had not known then that all along there had been this other currency of pure gold.
—Philippa Gregory in The Other Boleyn Girl
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
—Abraham Lincoln
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
—Kurt Vonnegut
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
—Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
—Willie Tyler
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
—Mark Twain
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
—Malcolm Forbes
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
—W. S. Gilbert
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
—Henry Adams
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
—H. G. Wells
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
—Vince Lombardi
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
—Ethel Waters