Quotes of: Memoir Keyword

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death

Manic: A Memoir

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

...what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?

Memoir from Antproof Case

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first.

Spilled Perfume: A Memoir

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

Spilled Perfume: A Memoir

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.

Spilled Perfume: A Memoir

It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

Please Excuse My Daughter: A Memoir

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.

Whip Smart: A Memoir

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.

Memoirs of a Fighting Dog

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but... Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.

Robert Gottlieb

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

Robert Gottlieb