"Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about."

-- Alan Furst

#Dog Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.”
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you donâ€™t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what youâ€™re doing here. Believe in kissing.”

Source : Eve Ensler (2010). “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”, p.139, Villard
“Men and women are from different zip codes. All guys understand - well this is just my opinion - you guys don't understand with words. You guys understand with actions.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?”
“If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.”
“I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
“The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.”

Source : Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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