"We knew we were doomed. The kiss was……" — Lisa Lutz
"We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1."
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28 Quotes by Lisa Lutz
Lisa Lutz has 28 quotes on this site.
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I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.
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We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.
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The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death…
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His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
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While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and…
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Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned…
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If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think…
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Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked.…
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Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.
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I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman
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I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.
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My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately,…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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