“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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“she could write the world as she would, life would go on just as it had since the”
― K.M. Weiland, quote from Dreamlander
“The much lauded objective evidence is never triumphantly there; it is a mere aspiration or Grenzbegriff [limit or ideal notion] marking the infinitely remote ideal of our thinking life … [But] when as empiricists we give up the doctrine of objective certitude, we do not thereby give up the quest or hope of truth itself. We still pin our faith on its existence, and still believe that we gain an ever better position towards it by systematically continuing to roll up experiences and think. Our great difference from the scholastic lies in the way we face. The strength of his system lies in the principles, the origin, the terminus a quo of his thought; for us the strength is in the outcome, the upshot, the terminus ad quem. Not where it comes from but what it leads to is to decide.”
― quote from The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“As much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold on to.”
― Emery Lord, quote from The Names They Gave Us
“The more you try to push a child's unhappy feelings away, the more he becomes stuck in them. The more comfortable you can accept the bad feelings, the easier it is for kids to leg go of them.”
― Adele Faber, quote from How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
“Matthias and I met up again in the lab after Christmas vacations and sat down to write our paper. One major question was where to send it. Nature, the British journal, and its American counterpart Science, enjoy the most prestige and visibility in the scientific community and in the general media, and either would have been an obvious choice. But they both impose strict length limits on manuscripts, and I wanted to explain all the details of what we had done—not only to convince the world that we had the real thing but also to promote our painstaking methods of extracting and analyzing ancient DNA. In addition, I had become disenchanted with both journals because of their tendency to publish flashy ancient DNA results that did not meet the scientific criteria our group considered necessary. They often seemed more interested in publishing papers that would give them coverage in the New York Times and other major media outlets than in making sure the results were sound and likely to hold up.”
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