February 2012
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“Only in the rain, sometimes, only when the rain comes, closing in your pitifully...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“Belief, hard work, love—-you have those things, you can do anything.”
– Mitch Albom, For One More Day
January 2012
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“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life...”
– Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking (via sevans1234)
December 2011
22 posts
“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you’re so...”
– Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else,...”
– Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more...”
– Mitch Albom, For One More Day
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Surprising that the queue of about 120-130 quotes has already emptied. It automatically posts once a day at five pm. I’m on break now so I have time to update the queue with quotes from books I read a few months ago and time to read as well. I haven’t read continuously in such a long time. Hope everyone is having a great evening!
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“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is...”
– Roald Dahl, Matilda
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“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via atomos)
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“I’m afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You...”
– Roald Dahl, Matilda
“To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“I don’t want to need anybody I want someone to need me…I want...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“I know that’s what people say—-you’ll get over it. I’d...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing, something complicated and...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life’s too short....”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Maybe she doesn’t love me as much as she loves him. But she needs me more...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“‘Someday you’ll remember what I said and you’ll thank me for...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“‘Why would I want to cheat you?’
‘Why would anyone want to...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Sex is something that invariable comes into everyone’s life. People write...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Most women had the one thing in common” they had great pain when they gave...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Why hadn’t she smiled back? Why hadn’t she smiled back? Now she...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“It takes a lot of doing to die.”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
November 2011
30 posts
“When people gamble, they think only of winning. They never think of losing....”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“The sad thing was in the knowing that all their nerve would get them nowhere in...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“She was a great love and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her,...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“‘Shakespeare is a great book. I have heard tell that all the wonder of...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard unfamiliar...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“An kind of musical, artistic or storytelling talent was wonderful to them and...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Here eyes were soft brown, limpid and innocent. She wore her shining brown hair...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Old people are not unhappy. They don’t long for the things we want. They...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“‘I drink because I don’t stand a chance and I know it. I drink...”
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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library paste and freshly...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“‘Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“‘I wanted to hurt him.’
‘Why?’
‘Because he had...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Why can’t people say what they mean at the time?”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Maybe we’re just missing things we’ve lost, or hoping for what we...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“She died in my arms, saying, ‘I don’t want to die.’
That is...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I put my hand on him. Touching him was always so important to me. It was...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close