Quote by Jane Smiley ““In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.”” — Jane Smiley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't… — G.G. Vandagriff Copy Share Image
“I had absolutely no idea that all this time he'd been flirting with me.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“We were—and he must have recognized the signs long before I did—flirting.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I did not flirt with him; I was being courteous, since you were making the entire situation completely awkward.” “Good, he should have taken… — C.C. Brown Copy Share Image
“No, that’s the thing. He was smug, cute, hot and completely flirty.” “Horrible. What a fucking bastard. What is he thinking, trying to be… — Z.B. Heller Copy Share Image
“This guy is piece of work. He doesn’t hide the fact that he’s a player, but that easygoing boyish charm of his somehow makes… — K.A. Tucker Copy Share Image
“I liked this guy a lot. And I thought he liked me a lot, but in truth he didn’t really like me at all.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seemed like I had, but actually, you never know, just by remembering, how many facts you were allowed to have faced. Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who've really faced the facts. The eerie feeling this… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was uncomfortably conscious of my whole body, from the awkward way that the shafts of my hair were thrusting out of my scalp to my feet,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
“She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the food hanging over the table, the heads turning this way and that, the voices murmuring and laughing. She looked at Walter, who was so far away from her, all the way at the other end of the table,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
