Tyyne Matilainen Quotes & Sayings

It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way. — Lauren Myracle

I'm not leaving you. Right here, right now is the happiest I've ever been. I love you. That means I don't leave. Sorry. — Debra Anastasia

I can't stand Mark Gottler," I said.
"Really? I couldn't tell."
"While he was talking, I was overwhelmed by the realization that here is this hypocritical asshole who took advantage of my sister, and I'd like to ... well, I don't know, shoot him or something ... but instead there we were, negotiating."
"I know. But he's stepping up to the plate. Let's give him points for that."
"He's only doing it because we're forcing him to." I frowned. "You're not on his side, are you?"
"Ella, I just spent the last hour and fifteen minutes with my boot up his ass. No, I'm not on his side."
-Ella & Jack — Lisa Kleypas

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that. — Colm Toibin

We (sometimes) get so far ahead of (ourselves) instead of living out each day that we forget to really appreciate the moment that we're in - even if it's (temporarily) bad. — Shari Wiedmann

If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened. — Patti Callahan Henry

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists. — Augusto Pinochet

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. — Lauren Oliver

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. — John Steinbeck