Quotes of: Fragile-thing Keyword

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Why spend ten dollars to buy one item that does two things, when for five dollars a piece I can sell you two items that each does one thing?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’m so constipated that every time I go to shit, the only thing that comes out is political rhetoric.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

If there's one thing I've still got, it's my memory. Which is too bad. Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

Thirteen Reasons Why

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Ten Things I Love About You

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

Ten Things I Hate about You

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

Ten Things I Hate about You

If she lets us down, if she’s weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.

Ten Things I Hate about You

I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

Up a Road Slowly

A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in our lives

The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

Venus in Arms

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Vegan, Virgin, Valentine

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

Write like no one is reading 2

CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."

The Water Babies

CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook. BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops