“It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you’re walking out of the theater you can’t remember anything at all about your own life.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture and a man will walk into it. If you can bear him even a little, then for a while let him stay.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
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“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from The Darkest Night
“Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, quote from The Language of Flowers
“People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves - among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. People in low life have no such privilege.”
― Wilkie Collins, quote from The Moonstone
“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”
― John Connolly, quote from The Book of Lost Things
“They'll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you're nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in there devouring their evil chocalates! Do you think you could control them?”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Illustrated Man
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