“That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”
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“Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.”
“The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!”
“Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.”
“Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.”
“People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already.”
“...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.”
“having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.”
“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”
“I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.”
“Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.”
“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”
“How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!”
“Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.”
“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”
“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”
“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.”
“A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.”
“People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.”