October 2011
“Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”
—At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”
—At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
“I never tell my boyfriend that I’m busy when I’m not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don’t agree with me. So it’s always okay, it’s always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.”
—Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
“I’ve thought for a long time that we were going to end up together, so I didn’t really care so much about the when of it. Now, though, the long road is starting to seem like the infinite road.”
—Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
—The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn’t good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950’s, he was employed for Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported back to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper all morning and then typed, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and walked out, self-employed again.”
—Armageddon in Retrospect (introduction) by Mark Vonnegut
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
—Aristotle
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
—Ariel by Sylvia Plath
“Sometimes,” said Pooh, “the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
—Winnie the Pooh
