Quotes of: Just-one Keyword

He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of...

Elizabeth Gilbert

Jimmy: You stay under water for three minutes. If you can do it, I'll just nick you. [brandishes switchblade] Jimmy: But if you can't, I'll poke one of your eyes out. An eye for an ear, right?

Let the Right One In

Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just like to breathe and sleep and get all the rest I could. I wake up five in the morning some days just thinking about my own thoughts and stare blankly ...

Happy Positivity Blankly Ahead

I once asked Randy how he knew that he had fallen in love with his girlfriend, Amy, and he just looked at me like it was the hardest question in the world. I expected some floral, florid explanation, about the air lightening and flute music filling h...

How They Met, and Other Stories

Jen leaned around Sally and glared at her two best friends. "What are you two betting on?" "Good grief. What, does she have eagle ears or something?" "No you dork. Your whisper is just you talking in normal volume but making your voice raspy. Really,...

Just One Drop

Mick reached backwards without breaking eye contact and ran his hand across the door behind him, “See this?” he said. “This is my door. And no-one is touching my door today.” He shook his head slowly as if the issue wasn’t even up for debat...

Weapon of Choice

I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.

Confessions of a Paris Party Girl

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

The Dogs of Riga

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

On the Edge

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

The Bell Jar

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

Blackout

So what do you do for sex? Just one-night stands? Or do you play a lot of five-on-one?" -- Clarissa

Blank Slate

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

Just One Day

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

Just One Day

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

Just One Day

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.

Just One Year

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

Russian Winter

The first thing you should know is that soulmates are real. They are not just some romantic idea. We are made for one person and one person alone.

The Soul's Mark: FOUND

A helicopter is just like a flying ceiling fan. My love is the journey of the breeze.

My love can only occupy one person at a time