Rest Of Your Life Quotes - Page 11

• Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

  Lorrie Moore

  Nice, College, Views

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.629, Faber & Faber

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• I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.” “No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor,” Dad said. “What if we’re failing a course?” asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. “If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Daughter, Jobs, Dad

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• It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

  Paul McCartney

  Moon, Want, Astronaut

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• No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

  Melina Marchetta

  Apology, Stories, Bearable

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• When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Letting Go, Past, Joy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Reading, Fate, People

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• I can't wait to tell him one day," she says with a giggle. "'Hey, Chaz, guess what? We knew where your precious car was all the time.' I'd like to take a photo of his face. What do you think?" "I reckon I'd smile really nicely in the photo," Santangelo says behind me, yanking me out of the way, "knowing that you'll be keeping it under your pillow for the rest of your life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Knowing, Car

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• You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Waiting Rooms, Fleeting

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• Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Funny Things, Walks

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “September”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?

  Haruki Murakami

  Kids, Two, Scary

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• So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

  Daniel Silva

  Drinking, Scotch, Alcohol

  Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin

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• If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

  Megan Hart

  Smart, Lucky, Sixteen

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• Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

  Ann Patchett

  Nice, Tired, Men

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• You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Best Friend, Girlfriend, Soulmate

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• Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

  Iain Banks

  Years, Waking Life, Ordinary

  Iain Banks (1986). “The bridge”

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• reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Book, Reading, Silence

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• I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

  Jennifer Egan

  Sorry, Believe, Heart

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.156, Anchor

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• So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if I refuse you, you spend the rest of your life impotent and alone? But I, on the other hand, am free to live my life however I see fit?” He nodded. “It really sucks to be you, doesn’t it?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Husband, Mean, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.252, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

  Kristin Hannah

  Opportunity, Waiting, Chance

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.297, Ballantine Books

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• Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

  Emily Giffin

  Summer, School, Emotion

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.367, Macmillan

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• I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Giving Up, Get Well, Thinking

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Regret, Spring

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #64: Tiny beautiful things". therumpus.net. February 10, 2011.

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• There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, World, Facts

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• What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Years, Names, Woods

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• Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

  Tyler Perry

  Happiness, Safe, Happy With Yourself

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