Rona Jaffe Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Rona Jaffe
To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation. — Rona Jaffe
But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing. — Rona Jaffe
It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all — Rona Jaffe
We keep making decisions, every day, half without thinking, half against our will. If we don't fight back, if we allow ourselves to change, to be changed, then once it's done we have to do other things, and on and on until the person we wanted to be is so far away in the past that we only remember her, longingly, as if she were a beloved stranger. — Rona Jaffe
Anyone has a right to make a fool of herself if she's really in love," Caroline said. "There aren't any laws. But you have to realize everyone else does it too, and forgive yourself. That is a law."
"Whose law?"
"Caroline's law," Caroline said.
"Do you really believe that?" April asked softly.
"I have to. I try to, that is. — Rona Jaffe
You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will. — Rona Jaffe
She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night. — Rona Jaffe
What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously .
'An old American institution of mismating. — Rona Jaffe
...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content. — Rona Jaffe
What good was a love affair that ended with the last train to the country, and Christmas presents that had to be given the day before Christmas because holidays were family times, and knowing that you would still be as alone as before because you could never telephone the man you loved when you needed him? — Rona Jaffe
She had a collection of matchbooks from extravagant places, dropped here and there on tables in the dingy apartment she still shared with Gregg. They made it look as if she lived a gay, mad life. What a typical picture for anyone from out of New York: career girl's apartment, stockings drying over the shower rod, clothes flung helter-skelter in the rush to get to the office on time, to a date on time, a bottle of wine there too, wads of dust lying under the studio couch because you couldn't clean except weekends and sometimes not even then, and all those brightly colored matchbooks with names of well-known eating places, so that even if one managed only two good and sufficient meals a week one could still light one's cigarettes for the rest of the week with the memory. — Rona Jaffe
It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess. — Rona Jaffe
Almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up. — Rona Jaffe
But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special — Rona Jaffe
Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain. — Rona Jaffe
The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm — Rona Jaffe
A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard. — Rona Jaffe
It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy — Rona Jaffe
For people who have something in the present it is easier to forget the past, although you never wholly do so. When winter comes, spring is a vague memory, something looked back at with nostalgia, but winter is the here and now and requires all your energies. If spring were to vanish and there were nothing, an abyss, if that were even possible to imagine, then you would live with memories of spring for ever and ever or else become a part of the abyss itself. The same can sometimes be said for love, but not always. There are some loves that live on for years, inexplicably, although the lovers are parted and there is no hope that they may ever reunite except as polite and distant friends. — Rona Jaffe