“How was it possible he looked cool and calm and falling to pieces all at once?”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“You have to believe you deserve the things you want and expect them to happen. Then you need the determination to see them through despite the obstacles.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I think it's because when I look at you, I see us. and we're beautiful together.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I get that you have a huge ego and probably don’t want to admit you’re a disgusting, shallow bastard, but don’t hide behind a doctor’s note.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“But I think deep down inside I always knew that being genuinely ugly (not just “unattractive” as Asshole had called it) would slow me down.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I wanted to ruffle this man’s pretty feathers. Then I wanted to pluck them out and make a fancy headband.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Now, I get how strange this is going to sound, but good old Craig here calling Mr. Cole a “fucking dick” somehow rubbed me the wrong way. I inexplicably felt like I was the only person in the world who’d earned that privilege.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Conquering meant one pushed the obstacle out of the way. Total annihilation or domination.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“It is called cacophobia, Miss Snow. It is a disorder.” I blinked at him, trying my best not to laugh hysterically and roll on the floor.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Now if you’ll excuse me, real life is calling and there’s no room for self-righteous, delusional little girls. Big boys only.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“It was completely unprofessional to speak about your boss like that to someone who wasn’t a trusted friend or family member you leaned on for the requisite boss-venting.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I’m going to give you some advice: don’t be such a whiny asshole. It makes you look weak.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“You are the most unattractive woman I’ve ever met. And you are exactly what I need.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I realized how love could insulate a person from just about anything. Especially self-love.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Ironically, I remember that not even the pretty girls were exempt from this sick breed of torment. And if they couldn’t escape it, what about me?”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“When it comes to your looks, the only option in this world that matters is yours.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Good luck,” he said, but really meant “fuck you” by his tone. Changed my mind. “Thanks, Amy.” Fuck you back.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Oh, but he allooowed it. Like he gave me some precious permission slip to ride his cock.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“By the way, I bought six tubes of lip gloss after seeing you naked.” Oh, wait. “In the photo, I mean.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I vote you fire him and then kick his ass so your liability is reduced to only your personal assets versus the company’s.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.”
― Lauren Weisberger, quote from Chasing Harry Winston
“When I was outdoors, walking, like now, what I saw gave me nothing. Snow was snow, trees were trees. It was only when I saw a picture of snow or of trees that they were endowed with meaning. Monet had an exceptional eye for light on snow, which Thaulow, perhaps technically the most gifted Norwegian painter ever, also had. It was a feast for the eyes, the closeness of the moment was so great that the value of what gave rise to it increased exponentially, an old tumbledown cabin by a river or a pier at a holiday resort suddenly became priceless, the paintings were charged with the feeling that they were here at the same time as us, in this intense here and now, and that we would soon be gone from them, but with regard to the snow, it was as if the other side of this cultivation of the moment became visible, the animation of this and its light so obviously ignored something, namely the lifelessness, the emptiness, the non-charged and the neutral, which were the first features to strike you when you entered a forest in winter, and in the picture, which was connected with perpetuity and death, the moment was unable to hold its ground.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, quote from Min kamp 2
“So, I'm not strange anymore?" he asks.
"What?"
"You're riding in my car, which must mean I'm not a stranger anymore."
"Actually, the more I'm around you, the stranger you get.”
― Kiersten White, quote from The Chaos of Stars
“I love you, Layla Flaherty,” I tell her because I can feel how badly she needs to hear it. “But you already know that, don’t you?”
I watch as her pupils dilate and she licks her lips. “I do.”
“So what are you going to do about it?” I lean back, despite my body’s protest to throw her down and tear her clothes to shreds.
“I’m going to love you right back.”
― Caisey Quinn, quote from Keep Me Still
“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of his thumb, but even more in the feel of his hand being tugged back lightly from its course across the page by the strict, unvarying shape of the letters, the discipline of the alphabet.”
― J.M. Coetzee, quote from The Master of Petersburg
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