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"Her voice had something artificially sweet to it, like the substance in Diet Coke, or the filling they use in diabetic chocolates, which say on the package that they won't make you fat."

"A fixed appointment for the immediate future is the gates of hell; the actual evening is hell itself."

"Under the right circumstances, anyone might sell anything."

"I don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context."

"Dad. Why haven't you called me? I left you a million messages."
"You left me too many messages. You shouldn't be calling me or even thinking about me. You're in college now. Move on."

This snippet of dialogue surprised me. Maybe it makes sense, taking into account Cath's relationship with her father, but a parent should never say anything like this to their child. Not even jokingly. Unacceptable.

"who tricked you
into believing
another person
was meant to complete you
when the most they can do is complement"

"i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like"

"That's what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them."

"We'd just been two people who helped each other when we needed it and got our hearts fused together along the way."

Act 1, sc. 3
Duncan
No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present
death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.

"But sometimes you can't control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore."

"She's clean and she's gone a lot. Two of the most important qualities in a roommate."

"She's clean and she's gone a lot. Two of the most important qualities in a roommate."

"I'm more focused on other people, and how they ultimately come to the decision to just end their own lives. Do they ever regret it? In the moment after letting go and the second before they make impact, there has to be a little bit of remorse in that brief free fall. Do they look at the ground as it rushes toward them and think, 'Well, crap. This was a bad idea.' Somehow, I think not."

"Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back."

"To the loving eye, even smallpox scars are beautiful."

"The AAs say FEAR stands for something else, as well: Fuck everything and run."

"Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life."

"But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances."

"life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook."

"If I ever gave you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream." - in reference to 'colored' bathrooms

"If I ever gave you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream."

"Continence pants are funny, of course they are. Unless, of course, you're the one who needs them."

"That was a good feeling to go on, so I walked away from them, giving myself the old advice as I went: don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks."

"I had parked in front of the drugstore, and paused to examine the sign in the window. [...] And the thin, bespectacled man in the white smock who was looking out at me just about had to be Mr. Keene." I love when Stephen King's novels have mini crossover episodes. So cute, so fun.

"Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all."

"I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?"

"What made the job dispiriting was that you knew that very little of that red-pen teaching was apt to stick; if you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (totally, not todilly), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun and a verb, you're probably never going to know."

"Life is full of Big Questions, isn't it? Fate or destiny? Heaven or hell? Love or attraction? Reason or impulse?
Beatles or Stones?
For me it was always the Stones[.]"

"When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married."