Glenn Savan Books & Quotes

“After so much apprehension, the dreaded scene, now that he was in it, was nowhere near as horrifying as his fantasies.”

Fear Bravery Book Quotes

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“Max's back crept. He was going where he wanted to go. It was odd, but the sensation of realized ambitions was not unlike the sensation of fear; he felt the floor flowing under him like water.”

Fear Book Quotes Ambitions

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“Max had no patience with the Judeo-Christian concept of a consistent, judicious, grandfatherly deity. Give him fickle universe rampant with mischievous demons and self-indulgent demigods - all the good evidence pointed to such a model.”

God Universe Sarcasm Book Quotes

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“... it seemed to Max that what people kept in their refrigerators was every bit as indicative of their personalities as what they kept in their shelves.”

Food Life And Living Book Quotes Character Description

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“It gave him a kind of nervous satisfaction to see his basic grievance against reality confirmed once again by reality itself; nothing hold still. Every time you turned out around, something else had gone rotten, or fallen into despair, or disappeared entirely. In a universe that couldn't be trusted, that could at any moment just as likely as not blow up in your face like a bomb, you had to carve out your own island of order and control, however arbitrary, however illusory, just to keep going.”

Life And Living Book Quotes

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“He learned from advertising that poor people were fiercely brand conscious. They wasted their money on advertised products because they were deathly afraid of wasting their money.”

Life And Living Advertising Book Quotes Poor People

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“And this was a class act indeed, pretending interest in this women's bitchy monologue so that later, as sore as he felt, she would admit him in bed, and all the while secretly despising her. Just what was he doing at this woman's table if that was how he felt?”

Relationship Book Quotes Love Hurts Self Reflection Hard Truths

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“It's about as comfortable as a roller-coaster." "Oh? Do you fight?" "We fight, all right." "Who usually starts it?" "Me." "You? I find it hard to believe. What do you fight about?" Max sighed. "I can't seems to accept her for what she is.”

Relationship Book Quotes Love Hurts

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“I don't berate myself for not having liked Janey better. It wasn't in my power to like her better. But I loved her and I fulfilled my obligations towards her — which just might be the very same thing, when you come right down to it.”

Love Relationship Love Hurts Book Quote

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“Big things were built out of small things; and it was always in the small things first that principles were compromised away until they were compromised away entirely.”

Life Lessons Life Philosophy Book Quotes

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“People liked to believe that tragedies are interchangeable, that they bought you entrance into some kind of brotherhood of grief, where empathy among members was exalted, telepathic, but this is was probably because they needed to believe that tragedy taught you something, that is wasn't a total waste, that the prize you received in lieu of your loss was a new level of understanding. Max didn't view his bereavement as particularly educational, however. All he new now that he hadn't known before was what he should have known in the first place: no one was safe.”

Loss Grief Tragedy Book Quotes Loss Of Love

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“What if he turns out to be a reasonable human being with a reasonable-sized ego?" "Than I'll dedicate the rest of my life to the service of the Holy Mother and make a pilgrimage to Lourdes." Rosemary laughed. "People with reasonable-sized egos don't become MBAs, Max. They sell beers at the ballpark — or something.”

Books Ambition Career Mba

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.”

Relationships Book Quotes Love Hurts Liquor

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Source: White Palace

“Nora wasn't asking him to make her over into someone else; all she wanted was to borrow a few books. Was he such an effete intellectual as to think that an exposure to literature could work some kind of marvelous transformation in her? And what if it could? What if she awoke beside him one morning, having devoured Pride and Prejudice the night before, and was miraculously transfigured into an erudite, civilized woman? Would he still even want her at all?”

Relationships Books Book Quotes Love Hurts

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

“He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.”

Relationships Book Quotes Love Hurts

Book:White Palace

Source: White Palace

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