"The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface."

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Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.96, Vintage

J. Courtney Sullivan

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“Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.”
“I'm inspired to inspire others.”
“The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.”
“I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.”

Source : "Feller Proud to Serve in 'Time of Need'", www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.
“If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.”
“Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.”
“A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.”
“My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.”

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