Coupley Quotes & Sayings

I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing. — Maya Angelou

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong. — Nick Hornby

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. — William Shakespeare

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense. — Lorraine Toussaint

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. — Chris Prentiss

He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter. — George Saunders

History is not history unless it is the truth. — Abraham Lincoln

I am at the hospital waiting for my friend with Noah. Which is a very couple-like thing to do. All you have to do is watch any teen drama - anytime one of the characters is close to death and/or in a coma, the boyfriend/girlfriend teams always end up at the hospital together.
We are eating together. (Another coupley thing to do.)
We are talking about my best friend, his girlfriend, and their secret problems that she somehow neglected to tell me. Which means that Noah is the one telling me secrets that even my best friend won't.
I like it. All of it. Being here, eating food, telling secrets, everything — Lauren Barnholdt

There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when ... you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing. — Bode Miller

Wait."
"Stop?"
I bit my lip and nodded.
"Stop everything, or just go no further?"
"Just ... just no further."
"Done."
He gathered me into his arms and kissed me, one hand tangled in my hair and the other one caressing down my back, our hearts pulsing out a cadence that the musician in me translated into a concert of lust. — Tammara Webber

The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I'm not currently doing. — Scott Tracey

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still. — Rachel Hartman