“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?"
"Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets. Heather”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Sole Survivor
“She was young still, and the chains had not yet grown tight around her ankles…Whatever was to be done, she would do it.”
― Donna Tartt, quote from The Little Friend
“Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?”
― Oswald Chambers, quote from My Utmost for His Highest
“Just as I'd realize that I couldn't keep lying to her because I was in love with her, She'd realize that you can't love a lie."
Preston Drake - "Just for Now”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Girlfriend in a Coma
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