"Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together."

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Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK

David Levithan

#Together Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.”
“I canâ€™t tell you how many times Iâ€™ve gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. Thatâ€™s how it goes in my house, and I wouldnâ€™t have it any other way,”
“I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.”
“Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.”
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
“Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.”
“The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.”
“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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