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141 " There are many kinds of love and many kinds of lovers. You just have too find the right one for you. "
― Chloe Thurlow , Katie in Love
142 " Beauty is a burden as well as a gift. Beauty puts other women on edge. It torments men. Man is born adoring beauty and carries, just below the surface, a predisposition, a gut feeling, that beauty should be profaned and destroyed. The first thing conquering armies do is burn the library and rape the virgins. "
143 " When innocence ends, pleasure begins." Chloe Thurlow "
144 " Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment. "
145 " What's real and what's unreal are like two balls that you alternatively toss in the air, catching one as you throw up the other. "
146 " What do girls want? That's easy to answer. They want the same as men. They just want it more often. "
147 " Pampering your down-turned lips kills time when you are out on a date with some creep boring you to death. You can go to the loo, pull out your make-up bag and fantasize about all the people you would prefer to be with: Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Eddie Redmayne, Cameron Diaz. "
148 " Lipstick stains on a cigarette filter summons to mind noir evenings of decadence. A girl with carmine lips smoking is obviously a girl who does not intend to go home alone that night. "
149 " Writing a novel is like having a terrible illness. Every time you feel as if you are recovering, you have to start a new chapter, get over the setbacks endured by your heroine (you feel her pain) and set her up for more suffering. Conflict is the oil of fiction and in a romance, someone always needs a cuddle. "
150 " Publishing a novel is often likened to having a baby. It is much worse to that. It is like giving birth to something with cloven hooves, a monster in a black and white mask. Characters must reveal a blend of good and bad qualities with distinguishing tics and mannerisms. It obliges the writer to clear the mist from the mirror to see who you really are in order to establish who they really are. "
151 " A novel is a long confession in which you expose your heartaches, complain about all the things that are wrong in the world, then try to put those things right for the sake of the reader, as well as your own well being. "
152 " The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves. "
153 " A novel is a wish list of who you subliminally want to be and can be. Writing is an arrogant pursuit. In the secret heart of every novelist there are two people: a politician and a philosopher certain that he/she knows best while, at the same time, remains an outsider who believes nothing matters much, and few things matter at all. "
154 " Nothing really matters much and much doesn't really matter at all. "
155 " Somewhere, incredible things are happening. The trick is, not to go out and find where those things are happening, but to go out and make them happen. "
156 " If a word were a man he'd be a man of his word. "
157 " Love is like glue on your fingers, you touch each other and you can't let go. "
158 " and what is success? Success is setting goals, making a definite plan and setting out on the journey to accomplish that plan without allowing anything to stop you. Success is finding every facet of yourself and polishing it till it shines "
159 " It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity. "
160 " Time passes quickly while you are travelling, slowly while you are waiting, making time a mental construct we live by as if it is some axiomatic truth, which it is not. The tides are moved by the moon. Nature progresses by seasons. The animals by instinct. Only man is wedded to his own invention – and impediment – the clock. "