“... We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“You don't have to say yes to everything, you know. It's okay to say no.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I love you. I don't always understand you, but I love you.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I don't think there's a good reason to run unless someone's chasing me. Seriously.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I just wanted a chance. You know. Like everyone else.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“The heart can function with the wound but it never entirely heals.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“There's not always time to say everything.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“It feels like you stole from me, like you used me. In more ways than one.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I know what it's like to look for someone to fill up the whole inside you.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“Things aren't always as bad as they seem.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I don't want to know their secrets. There's only so far I can go.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“When I was in the hospital, Jeremy made a bet. That you would go to the Winter Ball with Clark." "Really?" I smile. "We're just friends." I tell her. She nods. "They're the best kind.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“The heart can function but it never entirely heals.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from What's Wrong with the World
“Faire Ladies, that to loue captiued arre,
And chaste desires do nourish in your mind,
Let not her fault your sweet affections marre,
Ne blot the bounty of all womankind;
'Mongst thousands good one wanton Dame to find:
Emongst the Roses grow some wicked weeds;
For this was not to loue, but lust inclind;
For loue does alwayes bring forth bounteous deeds,
And in each gentle hart desire of honour breeds.”
― Edmund Spenser, quote from The Faerie Queene
“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men - some in their brushed Confederate uniforms - on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.”
― William Faulkner, quote from A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
“Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication.”
― James Thurber, quote from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“Those fibers join a man to his surroundings;”
― Carlos Castaneda, quote from A Separate Reality
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