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21 " Are there any leading men in your life?''Several, but they're all fictional. "
― Catherine Lowell , The Madwoman Upstairs
22 " We entered a vast, bottomless silence. I scrambled for better conversation topics. This all would have been far less stressful in the movie version of our lives. The long silences would have been edited out. "
23 " There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful. "
24 " Once a book has left the brain of the author, it took on a life of its own, and served as the only liaison between the reader and the author. If you read carefully, the book could tell you all sorts of secrets-sometimes about its characters, and sometimes about its creator. "
25 " When you are older, you will realize that the things you feel to be true don't require verbal confirmation. "
26 " I had injected more of myself than I had ever intended into our nonexistent relationship. Now I would have to relocate the bits and pieces of myself that I had lost, and put myself back together, like a waterlogged puzzle whose pieces didn't quite fit anymore. "
27 " Never underestimate the sacrifices you will make for love . . . "
28 " The fiction feels more real than the reality. "
29 " Regret is made obsolete by the story you tell. "
30 " Love, like good fiction, can create reality from nothing. "
31 " My stories were not very good. They didn't have much of a story line, and, in the way of all serious fiction, they ended with the untimely deaths of everyone. "
32 " People evaporated in alcohol, the way people evaporated in dreams. "
33 " You’re determined to honor your pain because you think it defines you. "
34 " The purpose of literature is to teach you how to think, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world. "
35 " you are trying too hard to find a grand meaning in these novels. Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it. "
36 " We all have visions of bravery, but it often materializes only after the moment has passed. "
37 " We both must have felt that it was a lovely thing to be the two of us... "
38 " I used the phrases Jungian realism and linear archetypes, and congratulated myself on achieving a level of douchbaggery I had previously only witnessed in shampoo commercials for men. "
39 " It was a strange sight, watching a faculty member take a drink. It reminded me that professors must have real lives— "
40 " Few people would attribute attempted murder to a woman who made tea and wore a frock, but those, I knew, were the ones to look out for. "