“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
“I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours?" she asked.
"Me."
Conversation between Mary Rose and Harrison in Julie Garwood's FOR THE ROSES”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
“Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
“Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
“Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
“Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
“Harrison had started out worried that Corrie would shoot Mary Rose because the woman was as crazy as everyone said she was, but by the time the one-sided conversation was finished, his concern had changed. Now he couldn't figure out why Corrie didn't shoot her just to shut her up.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from For the Roses
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“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from East of Eden
“On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned "Lie down," "Shut up," and "Who shit on this carpet?" The couple across the road taught me to ask questions correctly, and the grocer taught me to count. Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window. "I want me some lamb chop with handles on 'em.”
― David Sedaris, quote from Me Talk Pretty One Day
“...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
“They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonised’ it. So technically, I colonised Mars.
In your face, Neil Armstrong!”
― Andy Weir, quote from The Martian
“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
― Samuel Beckett, quote from Waiting for Godot
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