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