Reagan > Reagan's Quotes

“There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth”
― Laura Dave

“The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.”
― Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America

“Someone's affection would give someone else freedom.”
― Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head...”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“ I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“Must protect my little pockets of happiness.”
― Sara Gruen

“That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.”
― Jimmy Buffett

“Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.”
― Jimmy Buffett

“My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.”
― Jimmy Buffett

“When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.”
― Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

“You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile”
― Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don't land me in one of those relationships where we're always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and "playfully" scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― Randy Pausch

“He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strength, whether at work or in relationships, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat," he'd say, "doesn't mean you have to run people over.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.”
― Randy Pausch

“When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture