“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.”
“- On tylko tak głupio wygląda - potwierdził Jaskier. - Ale cały czas liczę na to, że wreszcie zechce mu się wytężyć mózgownicę. Może wyciągnie słuszne wnioski? Może zrozumie, że jedyną czynnością, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwałt?”
“Sometimes a hand is an anchor. His held me to the world.”
“It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.”
“Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.”
“Paul struggled to imagine the outside world on his own terms, but it was almost impossible. Not only was he scattered across the globe, but widely separated machines were simultaneously computing different moments of his subjective time frame. Was the distance from Tokyo to New York now the length of his corpus callosum? Had the world shrunk to the size of his skull – and vanished from time altogether, except for the fifty computers which contributed at any one time to what he called ‘the present’?”
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