"I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with."

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Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.8, Dial Press

Mary Ann Shaffer

#Life Quotes #Marriage Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”
“When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.”
“Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.”
“Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.”
“The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.”
“Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.”
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”

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