“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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“He had his life—it was not worth much—not like a life that, though ended, had truly been something. If I had had courage, he thought, if I had had faith. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.”
― James Salter, quote from Light Years
“Is it too much to hope that maybe, just maybe, he could look past the cancer and see me?”
― D. Nichole King, quote from Love Always, Kate
“I realized I had let my own incapacity to recover from my past shrink my world so that it was big enough for only me. It was hitting me now, really for the first time, how being fucked up can turn into a form of narcissism. So that I barely acknowledged that others might need something from me.”
― Koethi Zan, quote from The Never List
“They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
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