"A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder."

-- Zadie Smith

#Good Friend Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”
“Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.”
“Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.”
“There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.”
“Wine and women bring misery.”
“Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)”
“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.”
“It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.411, Macmillan

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