“Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn’t asked for and weren’t expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“Because that was what we all did—we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“It was like watching two unicorns fucking," he told her. "All glitter and jizz.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“I still wasn’t convinced that tossing a shoe didn’t mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.'
Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you?" "I am, aren't I?" I asked in amazement. "I didn't know I knew how to do that.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“Does this mean we can eat pie today?" Easton asked. Riley let out a snorting laugh. "I know someone who will be." Nice.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“Turn the light on so your aim is better," he said mildly. "All you did was waste a full beer.”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
“I didn’t understand what he was doing, what he wanted from me. Because in my experience, people wanted something from each other. To use them, to gain friendship, for a romantic relationship. I didn’t think he had any of those three as his motivation, and it was like a Rubik’s Cube that I kept turning around and around with no solution”
― Erin McCarthy, quote from True
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“I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.”
― Cassandra Rose Clarke, quote from The Assassin's Curse
“Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull calls to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay calls to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions, such as the christening of the new kittens, or the refurnishing of the doll's house, or the time when they were getting over the mumps.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Railway Children
“I’ve joined the grief group because . . . well, because I sort of did a crazy thing. I drove my Honda through our garage door.”
― Lolly Winston, quote from Good Grief
“Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
“He could describe walking towards the Taj Mahal – ho-hum, thinks the reader, immediately in the realm of the tacky postcard – and still give you a wholly fresh impression of the exact scale and actual presence of that white tomb; delicate but powerful, compact and yet boundlessly imposing. Epic grace. With those two words he encapsulated it, and you knew exactly what he meant.”
― Iain Banks, quote from The Crow Road
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