“I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“And then what do I do?” Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“with breast cancer.” Father Sherry’s hand was resting on the statue’s shoulder. “Theresa was”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“Could she be a friend to the writer of a bad book?”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
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“When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, quote from Never Let Me Go
“I know you've always dreamed of going to Europe," he says softly. "I want to make your dreams come true, Anastasia."
"You are my dreams come true, Christian."
"Back at you, Mrs. Grey," he whispers.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Freed
“The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.”
― Ann Patchett, quote from Bel Canto
“When cells are no longer needed, they die with what can only be called great dignity. They take down all the struts and buttresses that hold them together and quietly devour their component parts. The process is known as apoptosis or programmed cell death. Every day billions of your cells die for your benefit and billions of others clean up the mess. Cells can also die violently- for instance, when infected- but mostly they die because they are told to. Indeed, if not told to live- if not given some kind of active instruction from another cell- cells automatically kill themselves. Cells need a lot of reassurance.
When, as occasionally happens, a cell fails to expire in the prescribed manner, but rather begins to divide and proliferate wildly, we call the result cancer. Cancer cells are really just confused cells. Cells make this mistake fairly regularly, but the body has elaborate mechanisms for dealing with it. It is only very rarely that the process spirals out of control. On average, humans suffer one fatal malignancy for each 100 million billion cell divisions. Cancer is bad luck in every possible sense of the term.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything
“He missed being broke, because when he had nothing he owed nothing and most of his classmates were in the same boat. Now that he had an income he worried constantly about mortgages, the overhead, credit cards, and realizing the American dream of becoming affluent. Not wealthy, just affluent.”
― John Grisham, quote from A Time to Kill
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