Lolengs Quotes & Sayings

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means. — Christopher Barzak

Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. — E. E. Cummings

I have a son,' says JJ, marveling at the sound and truth of the words ...
'You know, I love you and Mom ... But I don't even know this baby and the love- ' JJ clears his throat and wipes his suddenly wet eyes with the back of his hand. 'It's bigger. I'd lie down in traffic for him right now. I didn't know it could get bigger.'
Joe nods. 'This is only the beginning. — Lisa Genova

Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm not a tour rat. I'm not crazy about it. — Bob Seger

Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams. — Colson Whitehead

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. — Joan Rivers

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner

The young family who'd moved into the Miller home had gotten rid of the Millers' trademark overflowing flower boxes. The new owners of the Davis place had ripped out those wonderful shrubs Bob Davis had worked on every weekend. It all reminded Myron of an invading army ripping down the flags of the conquered. — Harlan Coben

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair. — Whitney Houston