"If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?"

-- Jill McCorkle

#Believe Quotes #Thinking About You Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”

Source : Essays in Criticism First Series, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)
“Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."”
“You're always being cast for what you've been in last.”

Source : AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. August 21, 2009.
“Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.”
“Iâ€™m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. Iâ€™ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.”
“â€žMa'am?â€œ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. â€œHmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.â€œ â€œMelrose,â€œ I corrected. â€œAre you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.â€œ â€žWell, my first name is Sydney,â€œ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.”
“Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.”

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