“But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes life is just messy no matter what you do," she [Emma] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Believe in yourself. That's real magic.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes things weren’t all that complicated. We just make them complicated in order to hide from them. “I’m”
― quote from Reawakened
“Evidence doesn't always lead us to the truth," he [August] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Fleming doubted all this but he listened anyway and thought with a kind of sardonic amusement that before the night was over life itself might grasp him by the scruff of the neck and jerk him out of the doldrums he seemed grounded in and into its swifter currents.”
― William Gay, quote from Provinces of Night
“(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.”
― Lauren Beukes, quote from The Shining Girls
“She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.”
― Portia de Rossi, quote from Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“All the characters ever written are already inside you. It's just a matter of accessing them and bringing them forward. And having no fear of the dark side.”
― Jane Lynch, quote from Happy Accidents
“I knew then that to come up in life you require talent, hard work, aggression and connections.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
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