"We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1."

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Source : Lisa Lutz (2010). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

Lisa Lutz

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“I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.”

Source : "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.
“One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.”
“Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
“...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.”
“God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!”
“Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean.”
“Why put it on if you're not going to strut?”

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