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1 " If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. "
― Julian Barnes , Flaubert's Parrot
2 " For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it. "
― Daniel Handler , All the Dirty Parts
3 " Alice couldn’t explain why, exactly, but she knew now that things had changed between them. Oliver had become her friend in an absolute, uncomplicated way. She was done fighting him, and he was done lying to her. "
4 " An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means. "
5 " Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty. "
6 " I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together. "
― Deb Caletti , The Secret Life of Prince Charming
7 " The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible. "
― Geralin Thomas , Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets
8 " The easy joy and the joyful ease of sex with men, their easy-access genitalia, their uncomplicated inner lives… "
― Nell Zink , Mislaid
9 " Sex was like the wooden horse of Troy, he decided. How uncomplicated a gift it seemed at first, but once you had let it through the gate how many unexpected dangers might be found to have stowed themselves away inside. "
― Anthony McDonald , Adam
10 " The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating. "
― Craig Groeschel , Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say
11 " You want so very much to adhere to your comfortable, uncomplicated contrasting color scheme. But that part of you that is no longer delicate, the pieces of you that have been impressed upon time and time again are making it difficult. You are beginning to understand, perhaps quite reluctantly, that life is cast in shades of grey. And that grey, whether it leans towards a lighter washed out version, or towards a never ending darkness, is not in the business of solace. "
12 " Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have come and rescued you." Like he was Prince Charming or something. Which he is, in a way, because he rescued me from the simple, uncomplicated life I thought I liked until I realized how much I was missing. How lonely that life had been: going to work, going home, and watching TV, going places by myself on weekends. "
13 " Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder. "
― Agatha Christie , Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #18)
14 " Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them. "
― Joyce Carol Oates , We Were the Mulvaneys
15 " It began with a perfect plan. Shape-wise we had a circle, a simple uncomplicated curve to guide us comfortably from one thing to another, an easy predictable ride promising a natural progression from A to B, C and D, and so on until we reached our destination. But somewhere down that smooth line, I think around F, it all went pear-shaped. "
16 " When the twilight of all my evenings reaches me, after a long dark day, my complicated thoughts suffocate inside all of my uncomplicated longings. Evenings refuse to end. And the dawns that constantly swallow up my nights, always shows me an extremely long road I still need to tread, and discover. And get hurt. "
― Khadija Rupa
17 " For I must tell you, gentle reader, that Geralt the Witcher was always a modest, prudent and composed man, with a soul as simple and uncomplicated as the shaft of a halberd. "
― Andrzej Sapkowski , The Tower of the Swallow (The Witcher, #4)
18 " You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal. "
― Joyce Carol Oates
19 " I hoped with every ounce of my being that he would have the pleasure of knowing love and heartache in the way that I did. It might sound strange me wanting my five-year-old son to experience heartache, but without it I wouldn't have met his mother - a wonderful woman who taught me just how uncomplicated falling in love can be when it is with the right person, as well as highlighting the notion that timing is everything. If I had met her earlier in life I've no doubt that I'd have made a complete mess of the whole thing. I wouldn't have been ready to receive her love or to give the love I'd spent year accumulating. "
― Giovanna Fletcher , You're the One That I Want
20 " It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales. "
― Jennifer Silverwood , Silver Hollow (Borderlands Saga #1)
