"As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head."

-- David Nicholls

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“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.”
“Anyone who's ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cholla knows there's a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.”
“Iâ€™m not religious but Iâ€™m definitely very spiritual person. Iâ€™ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those whoâ€™ve already been there.”
“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?”
“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”
“Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.”
“I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.”

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“Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.”

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