“Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.”
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“It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.”
“The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.”
“I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.”
“I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.”
“Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles.”
“It takes time to become myself every morning.”
“No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.”
“When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.”
“I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.”
“Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.”
“Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.”
“I like a quiet life, you know me.”
“The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.”
“Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold.”
“Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.”
“I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.”
“Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.”
“A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.”
“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”