"Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injuryâ€¦"

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Source : Carol Anshaw (2012). “Carry the One: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

Carol Anshaw

#Fun Quotes #Stress Quotes #Romance Quotes

“I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.”
“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.”
“I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.”
“Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath”
“People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.”
“The life of men is painful.”
“Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.”
“Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.”

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