"But then you hear that he can't hear……" — Melissa Bank
"But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door."
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40 Quotes by Melissa Bank
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're…
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV…
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer…
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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at…
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am,…
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my…
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never…
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid…
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The…
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days…
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You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
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