...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

WhiskeyScotch

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”

― Darnell Lamont Walker, Creep

WhiskeyScotch

“You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.”

― Josephine Humphreys, Rich in Love

WhiskeyScotch

“A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.”

― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

WhiskeyScotch

“It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.”

― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating

WhiskeyScotch

“The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

WhiskeyScotch

“And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time”

― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

seribulan

"When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."

—A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

WhiskeyScotch

“Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.”

― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

WhiskeyScotch

“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”

― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

WhiskeyScotch

“It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. ”

― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

WhiskeyScotch

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)”

― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter

WhiskeyScotch

“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”

― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side

WhiskeyScotch

“Never judge someone by their relatives.”

― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery

WhiskeyScotch

The best defense is a confusing offense.”

― Kimberly Pauley, Still Sucks to Be Me: More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire

WhiskeyScotch

“God is even in a single parent household.”

― Karen Salmansohn, Even God is Single:

WhiskeyScotch

“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”

― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

WhiskeyScotch

“Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.”

― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

bianglala

When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.

- A Separate Peace : JOHN KNOWLES

bianglala

Beauty remains, even in misfortune.

- The Diary of a Young Girl : ANNE FRANK

bianglala

What is Imagination but your lost child born to give birth to you?

- Ode To Meaning : ROBERT PINSKY