“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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“Oh, Levi. How glorious! Look at all the bluebonnets. Have you ever seen anything more stunning?” “Only you.”
― Karen Witemeyer, quote from To Win Her Heart
“And what’s the difference between us, that you’ll brush his sins aside and not my own?”
Maati smiled. “You aren’t him,” he said.
“And you love him.”
Maati took a pose of affirmation.
“And love is more important than justice,” Seedless said.
“Sometimes. Yes.”
Seedless smiled and nodded.
“What a terrible thought,” he said. “That love and injustice should be married.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“He turned into a rhinocerous," Ms. Smirt said.
"He does that," Sabrina said.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Everafter War
“But happiness, Albert knew, is something that appears to you suddenly, that is meant for you, a thing which you reach for and pick up and hide at your breast, a shiny thing that reminds you of something alive and leaping.”
― Eudora Welty, quote from The Collected Stories
“And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in which case every one is governed by his own reason, and there is nothing he can make use of that may not be a help unto him in preserving his life against his enemies; it followeth that in such a condition every man has a right to every thing, even to one another's body. And therefore, as long as this natural right of every man to every thing endureth, there can be no security to any man, how strong or wise soever he be, of living out the time which nature ordinarily alloweth men to live. And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason: that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war. The first branch of which rule containeth the first and fundamental law of nature, which is: to seek peace and follow it. The second, the sum of the right of nature, which is: by all means we can to defend ourselves.”
― Thomas Hobbes, quote from Leviathan
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