Quotes by Melissa Bank - Page 1

We are all children until our fathers die.
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Children
Dies
Father
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I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.
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Disbelief
Love Is
Real
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He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.
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Made
Mouths
Shapes
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You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
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Fit
Littles
Shrinks
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He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
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Kind
People
Waiting
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It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.
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Doubt
Judgment
Perfectly Natural
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She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.
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Felt
Lost
Seems
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The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
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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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Forgiving
Goes On
Want
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It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.
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Scare
Way
Wonder
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It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.
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Feelings
Scare
Simple
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She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.
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Children
Father
Said
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Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
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Compelling
Sometimes
Weakness
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
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Beautiful
Live By
Tvs
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I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
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Neither
Rid
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I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
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Feels
Hate
Teeth
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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 who has a map.
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Goal
Maps
Real
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You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.
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Dangerous
Feels
Wonder
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Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.
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Being Yourself
Boys
Ideas
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
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Cheating
Husband
Ordinary
Sound
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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, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
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Dear
Difficult
Kind
Way
Life Respect Me
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Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.
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Beautiful
Drinking
Gasoline
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When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
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Map
Sentence
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I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.
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I Realized
Lost
Way
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You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
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Dream
Feels
Want
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Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
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Animal
Nice
Predator
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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 main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
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Book
Character
Mean
Main Character
People Say
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
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Creative
Fun
Mind
Mud
Turns
Mind I Am Me
Instantly
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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 it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
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Perfect
Reading
Writing
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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 it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
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Masterpiece
Vivid
Firsthand
Notice
Olive
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He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.
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Men
Facts
Proof
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
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Looks
Stuff
Years
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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 seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.
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Teacher
College
Thinking
Interpretations
Seemed
Voluntarily
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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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Doors
Eye
Rooms
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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 me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
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Teacher
Boys
Rejection
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The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
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Girl
Couple
Growing Up
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You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
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Believe
Expression
Father
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i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.
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Giving
Strange
Want
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In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.
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Father
Growing Up
Mother
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Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.
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Advice
Hate
Voice
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You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.
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Letting Go
Mean
Tired
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With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.
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Light
Night
Stars
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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 out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.
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Inspirational
Cancer
Distance
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He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.
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Kissing
Mean
Thinking
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