“I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“You're not my words, Emma." I said, standing up and staring at the door while pretending to be gazing deep into her pretty hazel eyes. "But you're my numbers. You're all of my numbers." I paused, listened, and figured she had fallen asleep. "You're my infinity.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...
I don't know, it would feel like home.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“It’s not real. Love is a product of habit and routine. If you break that habit and change those routines, the person you’ve loved and lost and can’t live without suddenly becomes an easy memory to file in the back of your mind . In other words, love isn’t a heart condition. It’s not even an emotional one. It’s just a four-letter word we use when we want to control someone else and ruin their life if we ever decide to walk out on them”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“...he knew that some decisions in life are made before you ever have a chance to think them through. And sometimes that's a good thing.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“Yes, its long distance, yes it's a little inconvenient, but when all you've got is distance between you and your soulmate, that's not a bad thing, right?”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“Distance is something you can control; meeting your soulmate in the short span of a lifetime is something you can't”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“It's easy to think you love someone when the person you really want isn't there for you, at least not physically”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“I admired how perfectly matched they seemed to be, and I started to wonder about my own, personal definition of love. Had it been wrong? Had it been the cause of my misery all these years? Was it possible that I had somehow adopted a skewed version somewhere along the way?”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only way they know how to communicate.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“...Love isn't a heart condition. It's not even an emotional one. It's just a four-letter word we want to use when we want to control someone else and ruin their life if we ever decide to walk out on them.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“...although stories are about characters, they're mostly about "character". There's a difference.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“That sounds like love. Not being able to exist with the person you love. When you're spirit breaks and the physical world lacks any relevance.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“But there was one revelation that came out od TXT4sex. And it was this: any idiot can write a book.
So that is what I did”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“But I won't judge you if you don't judge me”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“...there was no fucking chance I was going to hang out with Jennifer doing scrapbooking. I couldn't trust her with scissors for one thing.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“A is for Asshole.
It's part of a series, Jennifer said”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“He was playing "Sick Day" with another women on his tenth -anniversary”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“A non-fucking fuck-friend, I guess. A non-friction friend.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“I tasted perfection, like a Lindt chocolate with all that soft and tasty core. I wasn't sure what flavor would be "perfection," but it didn't matter because she wasn't a fucking a chocolate ball. In that moment, she wasn't even Emma, she was mine”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“You're a writer, though. Your words are malleable, replaceable, and by definition untrustworthy. they mean nothing to you and that's what I'm afraid I am to you, to Walter, to any man I have ever been with. A worthless word”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“For you, you have a toolbox filled with words. If one doesn't work, you find another one. Or another one. Or another. You change your words like most people change mobile phones. There is no permanence, no commitment, nothing sexy about any word that you use. And that's what I am: I'm your words, Morgan.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
“You're not my words Emma...But you're my numbers. You're all of my numbers...You're my infinity.”
― Morgan Parker, quote from Non Friction
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― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it—two power—crazed magicians killed, a hundred power—crazed magicians saved…”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from The Amulet of Samarkand
“The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Survivor
“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has also taught me that we can speak to each other across time. And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say to you, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgently as if I were standing in the room with you. That life—whatever else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time—so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality. It exists; and it keeps on existing. And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
― Donna Tartt, quote from The Goldfinch
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Along for the Ride
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