“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“I believe in God,” he said, truthfully but weakly. “It’s easy to say that,” she said, her words still slow and soft. “And I don’t doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
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“You belong with us," he said quietly. "Nothing's going to change that.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Inner Harbor
“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
“What is it?” she asked. “Flesh. More like mine than like yours. Different from mine, too, though. It’s … the ship.” “You’re kidding. Your ship is alive?”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Dawn
“The truth is, the person I've ben hating more than anyone is myself. It is so easy. So easy to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and think of all the ways I fall short of someone like Kristen. To struggle with geometry equations and underlying meanings in novels and know I'll never been smart the way Asha is. To realize how much I've screwed up and to obsess over all of the terrible ways I've wronged so many people.
But.
But even though I know my flaws are so many (many many many), and there are always ways I could be better, and I should never stop working for that - I also need to give myself a break. I can cut myself some slack sometimes. Because I'm a work in progress. Because nobody is perfect. At least I acknowledge the mistakes I've made, and am making. At least I'm trying. That means something, doesn't it?
And just because I have room for improvement doesn't mean I'm worthless, or that i have nothing to offer to, like, the world.”
― Hannah Harrington, quote from Speechless
“we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.”
― Lev Grossman, quote from The Magician's Land
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