Pat Orbaker > Pat's Quotes

“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“The soft and mesmerizing opening riddled with sad undertones brilliantly foretold the violent clashes of familial conflict and heartache that was soon to come.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

“It felt like a strong, soft cloth that would catch her if she fell, and would also polish her to make her shine. Cherished. That’s what it was.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Eleanor stayed with Franklin after his repeated infidelities, and yet toward the end of her life, she regretted it, and advised her children to choose differently. ‘Never for a minute would I advocate that people who no longer love each other should live together because it does not bring the right atmosphere into a home,’ she wrote. She added that it was sad when a couple was unable to make a success of marriage, ‘but I feel it is equally unwise for people to bring up children in homes where love no longer exists.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Jerusalem takes you in and puts you under its exotic, opulent spell in a way few other cities can.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“And then I went out to the ocean. Do you know what it was like? The waves broke, and each time they did, as they slapped against the sand, I could feel it all through my body. And each time they broke, and each time they thudded down, they said, you have only one life, you have only one life.”
― Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and in Shadow

“Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.”
― Olive Ann Burns, Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree

“A fragment of charred human bone was found,”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Never despair. Never surrender.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Dusk at the Mountain.”
― Carl Bernstein, Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

“TALVEZ AINDA NÃO ESTEJA CLARO por que vim parar aqui. Deve ter sido por algo mais do que uma espinha. Não mencionei que nunca havia visto aquele médico antes, nem que ele levou quinze minutos – ou vinte, talvez – para resolver me internar. O que eu tinha de tão demente que em menos de meia hora um médico me despachou para o hospício? E ele me tapeou: tinha dito que eu ficaria algumas semanas. Fiquei quase dois anos. Eu tinha 18 anos.
Minha internação foi voluntária. Tinha de ser, pois eu era maior de idade. Era isso ou um mandado judicial – se bem que, no meu caso, nunca teriam conseguido um mandado judicial –, mas eu não sabia disso e, portanto, internei-me voluntariamente.
Eu não era uma ameaça para a sociedade. Seria uma ameaça para mim mesma? As cinquenta aspirinas... mas isso eu já expliquei. Eram metafóricas. Eu queria me livrar de certo aspecto da minha personalidade. O que fiz com aquelas aspirinas foi uma espécie de autoaborto. Por algum tempo, deu certo. Depois, o efeito passou, mas não tive coragem de tentar de novo.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted