“She didn’t trust people who didn’t like garlic, especially big fried pieces.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“My problems are all problems I’m lucky to have. And I know it, so therein lies the rub.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“But once Violet saw the inheret sadness in one thing, she couldn't stop.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“Love wouldn’t make being a mother any less boring or draining or bewildering.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“In order to make the April mortgage, Kurt had been forced to sell all his CDs, disconnect his Internet, and never set foot in a Jamba Juice.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“so am I. I have stumbled enough. I am forgiven. I am abundant. I am certainly insouciant. I’m not your tar baby. You’re the star, baby. Love the lucky well. MARIA SEMPLE wrote for television shows including Arrested Development, Mad About You, and Ellen. She has escaped from Los Angeles and lives with her family on an island off Seattle. This is her first”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, You wouldn’t care about what other people thought about you if you realized how seldom they actually did.”
― Maria Semple, quote from This One is Mine
“She didn’t care if other children grew up to the Wiggles or Dan Zanes. Hers would adore Sondheim.”
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“Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine" he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead
“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realizing that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger.”
― William Faulkner, quote from Absalom, Absalom!
“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
― Kate Morton, quote from The Forgotten Garden
“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”
― Irving Stone, quote from The Agony and the Ecstasy
“A slow, wry smile teased Daemon’s lips. "Simmer down, Kitten, before I have to get you a ball of yarn to play with."
Annoyance flared deep inside me. "Don’t start with me, jerk-face.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Opal
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