"There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam."

-- John Updike

#Patience Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.”
“I find you offensive for finding me offensive”
“Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just part of the business. We have to improve all our cinemas. In France, we're not looking to open many more screens, but rather to raise the standards of our current cinemas.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.”
“I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.”
“If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.57, Penguin
“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.”

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