“If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanNiceGoes OnLike MeLife Goes OnDon't Like MePushyYou Don't Like MeLife Going OnIf You Don't Like Me Author:Christine Quinn
“I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLongDesireTermQualityGoes OnNegativeFocusedAppealsDedicationObsessivePsychosisSingle Mindedness Author:Callum Keith Rennie
“While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.” KnowsMaySelfLyingWaitingGoes OnReaderIntelligentNarrativeToneHistorianAttemptingDefiningSweeping Author:Colm Toibin
“I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.” IfsKnowsMenLooksDoeBookRealMatterHurtPrinciplesWonderfulHeardCollegeGoes OnBeing TrueGatesIdealismIdealistHingesBarns Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.” KnowsPersonsGoes OnMessPreciseSelective Book:Thirteen Reasons Why Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.” KnowsWantLooksMeanSoulMovingLyingSoundBreakMinutesGoes OnWhat You WantNosesJust OneDesperateSurvivingUngratefulOne MinuteConfessingDisloyalTruth Will Set You FreeLong Way Down Author:Nick Hornby
“But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—” PeopleKnowsShouldLooksSaidRealDreamRememberMovingSpeakForgetFireHappenedGoes OnDrawsHappeningsDinnerFinishedAwakeLook At Me Author:Peter S. Beagle