“Maybe it’s time to find a new normal.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Here's the thing: the strings are already attached.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“I don't know if my life will ever be completely normal again, but something like normal is a good start.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“When it's your business, I'll let you know.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“...chicks are naturally attracted to the scent of badass”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Maybe someday we'll see each other again, Charlie. For real I mean. Until then, save me a seat, okay?
-Solo”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“And, Jesus, she's a good kisser. So good I want to beat the hell out of whoever taught her.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Yeah, well, I don't really want to kick you when you're down, but mostly for some crazy reason"- her face tilts up and she gives me this shy little grin-"I think you might be worth it.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“You should probably stay away from me," I say, resting my head on my knees. "I'm a mess.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Does this public display of affection with my daughter on my front porch mean I'm stuck with you now?" he asks, opening the screen door for Harper.
I'm not sure if I should laugh, so I hold back. "I'm afraid so.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“She beams at me and it’s almost enough to make up for the fact that I’m harder than trigonometry right now. Almost.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Her green eyes meet mine in the Guinness mirror behind the bar and it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room. I’ve never slept with this girl, but she was the first I remember wanting.
Harper Gray.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“That pretty much sums up our relationship: I have it. He wants it. He gets it. He ruins it.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Welcome home. Now leave me alone.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“I thought I was having a fucking stroke," I say as they free me from my coated elastic prison, making them laugh even harder.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“Hey back,' I say, my voice low beside her ear. She shivers. I love that.”
― Trish Doller, quote from Something like Normal
“I once interviewed Robert Solow, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics and a noted baseball enthusiast. I asked if it bothered him that he received less money for winning the Nobel Prize than Roger Clemens, who was pitching for the Red Sox at the time, earned in a single season. “No,” Solow said. “There are a lot of good economists, but there is only one Roger Clemens.” That is how economists think.”
― Charles Wheelan, quote from Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
“Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense.”
― Scott Adams, quote from God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“Today a soldier can go out on patrol and kill someone or have one of his friends killed and call his girlfriend on his cell phone that night and probably talk about anything except what just happened. And if society itself tries to blur it as much as possible, by conscious well-intended efforts to provide “all the comforts of home” and modern transportation and communication, what chance does your average eighteen-year-old have of not becoming confused?2”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from What It is Like to Go to War
“I am sure that deep down Ikhmenev was in a state of turmoil and pain as he witnessed the tears and torment of his poor wife; I am sure it was more agonizing for him than for her - but he could not control himself. This is what happens sometimes even with the most kind-hearted of people, who are nevertheless weak-willed, and who, despite their kind-heartedness, are apt to get carried off into a state of ecstasy when unburdening themselves of their grief and anger, even at the expense of hurting someone innocent, more often than not someone who is dear to them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Insulted and Humiliated
“You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Next Always
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