“Bad things open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“You can never replace someone you love like that. Eventually the memories won’t be so hard on you. With time, the memories will make you smile and you will be grateful for having them.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“A man is a penis-wrinkle when calling him a dickhead would be a compliment.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“Whip ‘em out boys. We’ll measure them right here and now.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“This isn’t over, Sylvia. I’ll leave you now, but I’m watching. I will not let that bastard hurt you.” I said this just as I reached the door. As she shut the door I heard a strangled whisper, “No, you’re perfectly capable of doing that on your own.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“I love you. I never stopped loving you. These past years have been empty without you. The weekend you spent with me made me realize just how much you mean to me.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“You left me over college tuition? Seriously? You left me broken and crying over money?”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“He was laughing, silently, and then we were both laughing, and then something changed. It was as if I had been watching the world through oiled parchment or smoked glass, which was yanked abruptly away. Everything grew very clear and bright; the music burst forth in majesty; we stood still and the room turned around us; and there was Kiggs, right in the middle of all of it, laughing.”
― Rachel Hartman, quote from Seraphina
“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Black Obelisk
“Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words.
"That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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