Guadalupe Macdonell > Guadalupe's Quotes

“was crying for all of us. There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― Amanda Lamb, Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

“Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. My conclusion was that it’s clearly worth looking into the way you deal with bad luck.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

“cacophony”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?” He answered before I could speak, “Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.” And”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

“Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“We are mirrors reflecting mirrors reflecting mirrors, showing one another what we can’t yet see.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“beefaroni”
― Lauren Landish, Leather and Lace

“camera’s lens were Eleanor Lavelle and Rob Young. The photo itself told her they were Eleanor Lavelle and Tony Shaw.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's one body.”
― Josh Malerman

“But in late March in the Pacific Northwest, a cease-fire on precipitation only meant the clouds were taking a coffee break.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Girl in the Woods

“Meaning they can maintain a core temperature independently of the environmental temperature,” I reply. “That’s rather remarkable, and not what I’d expect.” “Like the dinosaurs, they can survive in waters as warm as the tropics or cold enough to kill a human in minutes.” “Certainly defies what I understand about reptiles.” I”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Bone Bed

“The barman was well over six feet tall and had created strange, enormous holes in his earlobes by inserting little black plastic circles in order to push back the skin. For some reason, I was reminded of my shower curtain.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine