Quote by George Saunders Download Open image ““We were perhaps not so unlovable as we had come to believe.”” — George Saunders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
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“I was sure then that I was entirely unlovable, that this pattern of retreat was somehow my doing.” — Judy L. Mandel Copy Share Image
“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.” — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
“I believed by age eleven that I was horribly ugly and undeserving of human companionship.” — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I did not pretend to be a mortal. I showed my lambent, yellow eyes at every turn. None of it made a difference. I… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“There was no way they could not fail us- they were human, and more importantly, so were we.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
