Jordan Sonnenblick · 265 pages
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“There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“You’ll learn one day that real apologies don’t come with a BUT in the middle.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from One Grave at a Time
“Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian’s ease of manner and flow of ideas.”
― Henry James, quote from Washington Square
“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.
We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“I want more from life than that and I have more to give.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love
“The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.”
― Forrest Carter, quote from The Education of Little Tree
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