Carofiglio Books Quotes & Sayings

When I left you," he whispered, "you were already more beautiful than anything I
dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night,
your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my
loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me. — William Goldman

What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!
But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. Your eyes are safe. The story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. For me, it's here. It's now. I have to go through with this, considering the cost at every turn. Nothing will be the same. — Markus Zusak

Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant. — Charles Duhigg

It's more difficult to be loving than rude.
Be kind anyway while you could. — Debasish Mridha

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny. — Mark Hoppus

I wish Goodreads was also a dating site. — Laine

I liked me and I had been well drilled in good manners by Aunt Penny, who had often told me the best manners meant being thoughtful, a good listener and watching what everyone else was doing and deciding if it was worth trying. — Merabeth James

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together. — Tommy Lee

And you, what did you do with your mother's talents
when pain made her suffer the ground
you dragged yourself across toward Calvary.
Every day she asks:
Are you dead?
And I say: arise.
You haven't finished all your talents yet:
all of us are rotten through
and the only thing we've doubled is our doubt. — Rosa Alice Branco

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money. — John Paxson

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. — Anais Nin

As much as we like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, we are not. If we were, no one would throw away their perfectly working iPhone 5s to go pick up the latest Apple toy. We largely make decisions based on emotions, then rationalize them later with logical arguments. So how can you incorporate emotion into your facts and data? Use a visual story. — Anonymous

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ... — T. S. Eliot

We will have a happy marriage if it kills him. — Gillian Flynn