Ashmina Quotes & Sayings

Forever is not granted to any of us," the duchess said. "Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment. — Mary Balogh

Trent has kept his promise. He makes me smile every day. — K.A. Tucker

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it. — Taylor Swift

When it was first optioned, I was told that the chances of The Basic Eight becoming a film were slim because no one was making teen movies, and then later, I was told that the chances were slim because there were so many teen movies, and then I was later told that the chances were slim because teen films were over. I'm not sure when the magic window of opportunity was, but perhaps it's still on the horizon. — Daniel Handler

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't — Kurt Cobain

Reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into. — Supervert

You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted. — Jennifer Weiner

There are a few books I have read that I've never been the same after, and I think all good writing somehow addresses the concern of and acts as an anodyne against loneliness. We're all terribly, terribly lonely. And there's a way, at least in prose fiction, that can allow you to be intimate with the world and with a mind and with characters that you just can't be in the real world.
I don't know what you're thinking. I don't know that much about you as I don't know that much about my parents or my lover or my sister, but a piece of fiction that's really true allows you to be intimate with ... I don't want to say people, but it allows you to be intimate with a world that resembles our own in enough emotional particulars so that the way different things must feel is carried out with us into the real world.
I think what I would like my stuff to do is make people less lonely. — David Foster Wallace

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call. — John Scott

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc De Clapiers

We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away a sob, this thin man in his sixties with the soft androgynous face that aging seemed to bring, as though all the hormones were finally mixed up in a big coed pot because it just didn't matter anymore. — Meg Wolitzer