Olivia > Olivia's Quotes

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
― Coco Chanel

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“Brendan's not the guy you use to figure your shit out, Brendan's the guy you hope you get once you have figured your shit out.”
― Nia Forrester, Unsuitable Men

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”
― Nora Ephron

“You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Cheating isn’t a mistake; it’s a choice.”
― Vi Keeland, Stuck-Up Suit

“I’m a man,” he returned with harsher resolve. “Once we get past the title, the frill of my extensive travel and education, the calling on my life that I can’t control, and my family’s socioeconomic status, we can appreciate that I am a hot-blooded man who fights with rigor not to kiss you the way that I want, who struggles against beating his meat every day when I think about your glorious and sinful body while I’m alone, and the man who wants a woman in his bed to defile in each and every way as he chooses. Pastoral image aside, I am a man with carnal need, just one who wants to follow the rules and wait until I’m married to release what I’ve been holding since the day I laid eyes on you.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“You can either walk out of here on your own volition with dignity or you will be carried out,” thundered directly into my left ear. “You have 4.5 seconds before the decision will be made for you.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“Your fears are greater than your reality.”
― Love Belvin, Love Delayed

“A good man takes care of his woman,’ Ibrahim continued. ‘Not just emotionally, spiritually, materially …. But physically as well. He makes sure she gets what she needs, including giving her pleasure with his body and taking pleasure from hers.”
― Nia Forrester, Snowflake

“My mother’s dying. And I’m out here tryin’ to live up to something bigger than myself, build for myself … for you, for us … something that’s even half-assed comparable to what my father built for me. And you wanna run? Now? When I need you the most? Zee,” His voice broke. “I can’t … I can’t be in the foxhole fightin’ a war with someone who won’t fight right along with me. Who won’t fight for me.”
― Nia Forrester, Rhyme & Reason

“Falling in love is the easy part,
Loving is hard”
― Nia Forrester, Acceptable Losses