“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
― Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.”
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex."
"At least you know he's still available.”
― City of Bones
"At least you know he's still available.”
― City of Bones
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