Best Curtis Sittenfeld Sayings
- We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others Compassion
- Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on… All
- Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is… All
- To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this… Ad
- And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something… Fiction
- She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. Been
- Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle… Accommodate
- I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then… Afraid
- What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together? Bored
- She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts… Awareness
- ..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you… Believe
- Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to… Able
- At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes,… Bad
- Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me… Any
- I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself,… Actually Liked
- But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked… Care
- I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me. Actually Change
- I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a… Each
- ... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of… Always Easier
- We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life. All