“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
-Gwen Goodnight”
“Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.”
“If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.”
“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
“When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.”
“You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.”
“This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight”
“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”
“Once you know the truth, it's always obvious”
“Davy's kiss tasted like vodka and disaster, and even while she kissed him back, Tilda thought, I'm never going into a closet with this man again. He slipped his hand under her T-shirt, and she said, "You know," as his hand slid up to her breast, but the only thing left to say was, I'm not that kind of girl, and of course she was.”
“have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to?
just turn over everything you had?
-Davy Dempsey-”
“He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.
What?' Ronald said.
I didn't say anything.'
You're breathing heavy.”
“If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning”
“Mason was leaving her for a fifty-four-year-old woman who didn't moisturize”
“I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine?”
“Nitko nije savršen. Svi koji
su ikada ikoga voljeli morali su prijeći preko nečega.”
“If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
“The steps to degradation are only three: the actuality of the shameful condition, the recognition of the actuality while feeling unable to do anything about it, and then acceptance of it as the normal state of affairs.”
“There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone now fighting would have stepped forward. But that is sacrifice; that is voluntary. Being expended robs you of the exultation, the self-abnegation, the absolute freedom of self-sacrifice. Being puts one in the role of victim rather than sacrificer, and there is always something begrudging in this. I doubt if Isaac would have accepted the knife of his father, Abraham, entirely without reproach; yet, for the same master, he would have gladly gone to his death a thousand times. The world is full of the sacrifice of heroes and martyrs, but there was only one Victim.”
“He taught me to cry, to love, to forgive. He taught me that sometimes truths are complicated, woven deeper than we could ever imagine. He taught me to let go. To hold on. And that what's real... is all that will ever matter.”
“You may be able to call up an entire
encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain
with no heart and no reasoning”
“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”
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