“People who talk less frequently notice more.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible.
I don't know how some people are able to
disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women's games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do at such times: She would deny that anything was wrong, then continue acting as if something was wrong, in hopes that he would do what men always do at such times -beg for an explanation, agonise over the answer, ask for hints, and agonise a little more.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears." She shook her head, remembering. "He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this -" She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. "But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“...I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“Fate had already done everything it could to torment her.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“I feel like hell...I ache all over, but mostly inside.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
“I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
Judith McNaught
Born place: in San Luis Obispo, California, The United States
Born date May 10, 1944
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“Did you just say ‘frolic’?”
“Is it not a word?”
“Who the hell says ‘frolic’?”
“I say frolic. And more people should.”
“They should say frolic or actually frolic.”
“Both.”
― Robin Benway, quote from Audrey, Wait!
“Frank sniffed. 'You know me well, wife. I thought those were in the
basement.'
'They were. You should have been an English teacher, Frank.'
'What are we going to do?' Henry asked.
'We're going to build a wooden horse, stick you inside it, and offer
it up as a gift,' Frank answered.
'Burn your bridges when you come to them,' Dotty said. She smiled at
Frank, picked up the empty plates, and walked back into the kitchen.
'Can we watch?' Henrietta asked.
'You,' Frank said, 'can go play in the barn, the yard, the fields, or
the ditches, so long as you are nowhere near the action. C'mon, Henry.'
The girls moaned and complained while Henry followed his uncle up the
stairs. At the top, they walked all the way around the landing until
they faced the very old, very wooden door to Grandfather's bedroom.
Uncle Frank set down his tools.
'Today is the day, Henry. I can feel it. I never told your aunt this,
but my favorite book's in there. I was reading it to your Grandfather
near the end. It's been due back at the library for awhile now, and
it'd be nice to be able to check something else out.”
― N.D. Wilson, quote from 100 Cupboards
“به جاي تسلط بر جهان بايد بر خويشتن مسلط شد”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Existentialism Is a Humanism
“I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Bed of Roses
“We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.”
― Veronica Rossi, quote from Into the Still Blue
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