Falling Quotes

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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of… — Salman Rushdie
I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip… — Michel Houellebecq
You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for… — Ilona Andrews
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shapeâ€¦… — Alan Moore
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent.… — Jodi Picoult
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different… — Jeffrey Eugenides
When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous. — James Patterson
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster — Mario Puzo
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was… — Seth Grahame-Smith
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke
I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this… — Cecelia Ahern
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and… — Tobias Wolff
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family,… — Sarah Dessen
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs… — A. S. Byatt
I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking… — Christopher Fowler
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling… — Carl Sagan
But you're so hypnotizing You've got me laughing while I sing You've got me smiling in my sleep And I can see this unravelling Your… — Demi Lovato
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something… — Denis Johnson
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of… — Rajneesh
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at… — David Foster Wallace

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