“-"Nick?"
"I'm still here, Laurant."
-"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?"
"No, but you just did. He's standing right here."
She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“You aren't in love with me."
She blinked. "I'm not?"
"No," he said emphatically. "You just think you are. You're confused," he explained...
She knew where he was headed. "I see."
"Transference."
"I'm sorry?"
"It's called transference. It's kind of like a patient falling in love with a doctor. It's not real," he stressed.
"That's what I'm suffering from?"
"Not suffering, honey," he said. "But I do think you've confused gratitude for love."
She pretended to ponder the possibility for a long minute and then said, "I believe you might be right."
"You do?" He sounded a little stunned.
"Yes, I do." She said more forcefully.
He wanted confirmation. "So you realize you don't love me."
"That's exactly what I realize," she told him. "It's that transference thing all right. I was confused, but I am not any longer. Thank you for clearing it up for me."
He shot her a hasty glance. "That was pretty damn quick wasn't it?"
"When you're right, you're right."
"That's it?" He was suddenly furious with her and didn't care that it showed. Damn it, she had told him she loved him, and after a one-minute argument, she caved. What the hell kind of love was that? "That's all you have to say?"
"No, actually there is just one more thing I'd like to mention."
"Yeah? What's that?"
"You're an idiot.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“much strength and endurance did she have stored inside her? He hoped to God she had enough to see this nightmare through.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“He merely accepted that this was unique and so special he would never be able to settle for anything less again.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“When you're right, you're right." "That's it?" He was suddenly furious with her and didn't care that it showed. Damn it, she had told him she loved him, and after a one-minute argument, she caved. What the hell kind of love was that? "That's all you have to say?" "No, actually there is one more thing I'd like to mention." "Yeah? What's that?" "You're an idiot.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“Criminals are getting younger and dumber,”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don’t domesticate him.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“He’s got places to go, people to see . . . ,”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“Hate the sin, not the sinner.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional. The seal of silence is sacred.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession he would ask him. A priest should understand. That was his job, wasn’t it? To understand and forgive? Maybe understanding would come with death.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“She nodded. Nick opened the door, but she paused on the threshold. "Noah? What's your last name? "Clayborne," he answered. "Noah Clayborne.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“All right then, I will,” she said, delicately dabbing at the corners of her mouth with her napkin. “Safe sex, Nicholas.” “Yes, dear,” Viola agreed. She circle the table, collecting the plates, “We want you to practice safe sex…shall we have dessert?”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Heartbreaker
“It was like crawling on glass. No matter how firmly she resolved not to think such stupid things, she thought them.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, quote from The Face on the Milk Carton
“Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.”
― Djuna Barnes, quote from Nightwood
“Oh yeah. That’s me. A mystery, even unto herself.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“I used to want to be a cheerleader,” I told them. “Before I decided to just go to hell.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from A Home at the End of the World
“El siglo XX será recordado por tres grandes innovaciones: medios sin precedentes para salvar, prolongar y mejorar la vida, medios sin precedentes para destruirla (hasta el punto de poner por vez primera en peligro nuestra civilización global) y conocimientos sin precedentes sobre nuestra propia naturaleza y la del universo. Las tres evoluciones han sido fruto de la ciencia y la tecnología, una espada de dos filos bien cortantes. Las tres tienen raíces en el pasado remoto.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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