“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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“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“End of Winter”
Over the still world, a bird calls
waking solitary among black boughs.
You wanted to be born; I let you be born.
When has my grief ever gotten
in the way of your pleasure?
Plunging ahead
into the dark and light at the same time
eager for sensation
as though you were some new thing, wanting
to express yourselves
all brilliance, all vivacity
never thinking
this would cost you anything,
never imagining the sound of my voice
as anything but part of you—
you won’t hear it in the other world,
not clearly again,
not in birdcall or human cry,
not the clear sound, only
persistent echoing
in all sound that means good-bye, good-bye—
the one continuous line
that binds us to each other.”
― Louise Glück, quote from The Wild Iris
“This is why so many of the best programmers are libertarians. In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses. When those far removed from the creation of wealth — undergraduates, reporters, politicians — hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that all? The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software.”
― Paul Graham, quote from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
“Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
“Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
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