"Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Funny Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.”
“No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.”
“Senzo Meyiwa was just a young kid and was already becoming one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.”
“I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle,' and the other isn't.”
“What little light was left inside me flickered out.”
“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”

Source : Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.”
“To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.”

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