"If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books

Sloane Crosley

#Love You Quotes #Being Single Quotes #Being Alone Quotes

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
“I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.”
“You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.”
“But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body”

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Feb 14, 2012
“There’s a 30% chance that it’s already raining.”
“There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadnâ€™t done... the paths you hadnâ€™t taken, the things you hadnâ€™t experienced.”
“And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.”

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