“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
-Gwen Goodnight”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking 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”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“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.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“Once you know the truth, it's always obvious”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“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.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to?
just turn over everything you had?
-Davy Dempsey-”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“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.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“Mason was leaving her for a fifty-four-year-old woman who didn't moisturize”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine?”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“Nitko nije savršen. Svi koji
su ikada ikoga voljeli morali su prijeći preko nečega.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
“If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Faking It
Jennifer Crusie
Born place: Wapakoneta, Ohio, The United States
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“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by ten food steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant in the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears.”
― William Faulkner, quote from Light in August
“I dont believe in the Devil, but if I did I should think of him as the trainer who drives Heaven to break its own records.”
― Robert Musil, quote from The Man Without Qualities
“The world’s now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason’s obvious. There’s nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that’s available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from Childhood's End
“Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from The Hero of Ages
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Running with Scissors
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