Figures Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image “He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Figures Messed up Wells
And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. — Henry James Copy Share Image
She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
He knew he made a mistake. You could see it in his face every time she walked into the room. He wished he wouldnt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done some brilliant retooling over the ages and could now be found living in the form of orioles in the sycamores across the street. As solutions to the problem of earthly existence, the dinosaurs had been pretty… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly no, it can’t. There is some reasonable chance, however, that it could save your soul. If you’re unhappy about the hatred that’s been unleashed in your heart, you might try imagining what it’s like to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain states of mind as 'diseased.' A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medication then destroys the libido, in other words destroys the appetite for the one… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best - the ones who didn't fit in. These birds may or may not have been capable of emotion, but the way they looked, beleaguered there, few in number, my outcast friends, was how I felt. I'd been… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville. — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works,… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
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