It S Complicated Quotes

“How could he say, look, I've tried not to fancy you since you first took your coat off in this office. I try not to give names to what I feel for you, because I already know it's too much, and I want peace from the shit that love brings in its wake. I want to be alone, and unburdened, and free.

But I don't want you to be with anyone else. I don't want some other bastard to persuade you into a second marriage. I like knowing the possibility's there, for us to, maybe . . .

Except, it'll go wrong, of course, because it always goes wrong, because if I were the type for permanence, I'd already be married. And when it goes wrong, I'll lose you for good, and this thing we've built together, which is literally the only good part of my life, my vocation, my pride, my greatest achievement, will be forever fucked, because I won't find anyone I enjoy running things with, the way I enjoy running them with you, and everything afterward will be tainted by the memory of you.

If only she could come inside his head and see what was there, Strike thought, she'd understand that she occupied a unique place in his thoughts and in his affections. He felt he owed her that information, but was afraid that saying it might move this conversation into territory from which it would be difficult to retreat.

But from second to second, sitting here, now with more than half a bottle of neat whisky inside him, a different spirit seemed to move inside him, asking himself for the first time whether determined solitude was what he really wanted, for evermore.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“Naturally – she's an actress." He laughed wryly to himself. "Complications. Oh, yes." The doctor reflected and then said, "I always think a life without complications isn't really a life, you know. In life things go wrong, nothing stays the same and there's nothing you can do about it. Friends betray you, family is a nightmare, lovers are fickle. This is the norm, no?" He smiled to himself, as if remembering something pertinent. "What kind of a world would it be where nothing ever went wrong, where everything stayed the same, life followed a designated path – family was adorable, friends and lovers were faithful and true?" He paused. "You know, I don't think I'd like that kind of a world. We're made for complications, we human beings. Anyway, such a perfect world could never exist – at least not on this small planet.”
― William Boyd, Love Is Blind: A novel

“He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“Not sure what of this you did offer me
Never did amount to anything
So with this
I go”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“Truth and fact-checking travel along the same paths that conspiracies do. But the truth is often complicated, shaded and demanding, and there's no denying that it often lacks the powerful, emotional, gut level appeal of a conspiracy.”
― Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

“Gus still thought he was missing something, some special piece other people had, the thing that made people stay, and it broke my heart a little. It broke my heart that when we were younger, he'd thought I'd never even look at him.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“If all of your ideas are correct, will there be room to add new information? Can you pour any more liquid into a full cup?”
― Eric Overby

“She waited for him to say something else, suddenly acutely aware, as she'd never been before, that a bed lay directly above them, barely two minutes from where they sat. And, like Strike, she thought, everything I've worked and sacrificed for is in jeopardy if I take this conversation to the wrong place. Our relationship will be forever marred by awkwardness and embarrassment.

But worse than that, by far: she was scared of giving herself away. The feelings she'd been denying to Matthew, to her mother, to Ilsa and to herself must remain hidden.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“I’m growing to believe that I shouldn’t have an opinion on some things or at least shouldn’t have an opinion that people listen to. When asked about some of the current hot issues of the day, I have grown OK with saying, “It’s complicated, I haven’t really looked into it enough.” I don’t have to, and will never, know about everything. In order to really understand most things, it takes a lot of research.”
― Eric Overby

“What was I sad about again?

Oh right. The fact that I want these alphas even though I don’t want alphas, but these alphas want me even though they know I don’t want them, but they know that I do want them, so now here we are in a confusing mess of wants. Feelings are gross. Life is better when you’re drunk. Everything hurts less.”
― Rory Miles, Knot for Me

“And what about you guys?” I drop my book on the couch and stand up. “You guys refused to take an omega after Emily. I’m not the only one living in fear, Cory.”

He grinds his jaw and nods. “Yeah, we were living in fear. Until you.”

That remark sucker punches me in the gut and steals my breath, taking all of my fight with it. I knew they’d softened over the last few weeks. I watched them warm to me and let me in. They conquered their fear, so why can’t I?”
― Rory Miles, Knot for Me

“I liked the way he fought his desire, but I didn’t like him. I liked the silky slide of his dark hair as he hovered over me, unable to draw away any further … but I didn’t like him. I liked the way he let himself be weak enough for me to grab his face and force him back to me, but I definitely didn’t like him”
― Jane Washington, A Dream of Embers