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The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said
Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.
Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.
The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.
And I’m okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I’m just not.
I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules
And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.
The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.
Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.