Evelyn Quotes

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Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, β€œIt’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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S.G. Tallentyre (The Friends of Voltaire)
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I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Evelyn Waugh
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It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?
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Evelyn Lau (Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far)
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No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Be wary of men with something to prove.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Say to them, β€œEvelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.” Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Evelyn looks at me with purpose. "Do you understand what I'm telling you? When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
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Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies)
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No … because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyways, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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...do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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And taking pride in your beauty is a damning act. Because you allow yourself to believe that the only thing notable about yourself is something with a very short shelf life.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I...well, I didn't do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.
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Stuart Turton (The 7Β½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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I'm bisexual. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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It’s not fair that you remember and I don’t.” β€œNo,” he said, his voice hard, cold, in a way I hadn’t heard it. He looked over at me, jaw set. β€œIt’s not fair that I remember and you don’t, Evelyn.
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Kylie Scott (Lick (Stage Dive, #1))
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And just as she was about to leave the mircophone, she said 'And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don't chip your tooth.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?
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Stuart Turton (The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
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Garrison Keillor (Pontoon (Lake Wobegon))
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No one is ever holy without suffering.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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It’s not wrong,” Celia said. β€œIt shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?” β€œIt’s not wrong, sweetheart. It’s not,” I said. β€œThey’re wrong.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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You don't have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.
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Stuart Turton (The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature.
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Stuart Turton (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.
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Stuart Turton (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. β€œIt's simply a matter of who's willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." β€”Evelyn Baker
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Seanan McGuire (Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1))
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Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.
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Holly Bourne (Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1))
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Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.
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Stuart Turton (The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.
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Stuart Turton (The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle)
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I was gorgeous, even at fourteen. Oh, I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that. I turned heads.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life....I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you. To find you and touch your skin and smell your breath and hear all your thoughts. But I don't want to be meant for someone like you.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem,
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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That is the fastest way to ruin a woman’s reputation, after allβ€”to imply that she has not adequately threaded the needle that is being sexually satisfying without ever appearing to desire sexual satisfaction.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I guess what I’m saying is it’s not all luck. It’s luck and being a son of a bitch.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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Do you think I'm a whore?” Harry pulled over to the side of the road and turned to me. β€œI think you're brilliant. I think you're tough. And I think the word whore is something ignorant people throw around when they have nothing else. … β€œIsn't it awfully convenient,” Harry added, β€œthat when men make the rules, the one thing that's looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You'd all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that's the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.” I laughed, my eyes still puffy and tired from crying. β€œSo am I a whore or not?” β€œWho knows?” he said. β€œWe're all whores, really, in some way or another. At least in Hollywood.” … β€œBut I like you this way. I like you impure and scrappy and formidable. I like the Evelyn Hugo who sees the world for what it is and then goes out there and wrestles what she wants out of it. So, you know, put whatever label you want on it, just don't change. That would be the real tragedy.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, β€œIt’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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The love of my life is gone, and I can't just call her and say I'm sorry and have her come back. She's gone forever. So yes, Monique, that is something I do regret. I regret every second I didn't spend with her. I regret every stupid thing I did that caused her an ounce of pain. I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, 'I'm in love with Celia St. James!' and let them crucify me for it. That's what I should have done. And now that I don't have her, and I have more money than I could ever use in this lifetime, and my name is cemented in Hollywood history, and I know how hollow it is, I am kicking myself for every single second I chose it over loving her proudly.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Imagine, and it shall be. There are no limits.⁠⁠⁠⁠
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Evelyn Skye (The Crown's Game (The Crown's Game, #1))
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If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you," I said, and then I kissed her and tasted the lemon juice on her lips.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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Evelyn, who was your great love? You can tell me.” Evelyn looks out the window, breathes in deeply, and then says, β€œCelia St. James.” The room is quiet as Evelyn lets herself hear her own words. And then she smiles, a bright, wide, deeply sincere smile. She starts laughing to herself and then refocuses on me. β€œI feel like I spent my entire life loving her.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I simply didn't care. It cost so much, caring. I didn't have any currency to spend on it.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
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Deborah Moggach (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)
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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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If there are all different types of soul mates,” I told Harry one afternoon, when the two of us were sitting out on the patio with Connor, β€œthen you are one of mine.” Harry was wearing a pair of shorts and no shirt. Connor was lying on his chest. He hadn’t shaved that morning, and his stubble was coming in. It had just the slightest gray patch under his chin. Looking at him with her, I realized how much they looked alike. Same long lashes, same pert lips. Harry held Connor to his chest with one hand and grabbed my free hand with the other. β€œI am absolutely positive that I need you more than I’ve ever needed another living soul,” he said. β€œThe only exception being—” β€œConnor,” I said. We both smiled. For the rest of our lives, we would say that. The only exception to absolutely everything was Connor.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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She liked to ignore the fact that I had made love to men and enjoyed it. She liked to ignore it until the very moment she decided to be threatened by it. That seemed to be her pattern. I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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[Change is] the only evidence of life.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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I love you so much, sweetheart. So, so much. And it's in part because of things like that. You're an idealist and a romantic, and you have a beautiful soul. And I wish the world was ready to be the way you see it. I wish that the rest of the people on earth with us were capable of living up to your expectations. But they aren't. The world is ugly, and no one wants to give anyone the benefit of the doubt about anything. When we lose our work and our reputations, when we lose our friends and, eventually, what money we have, we will be destitute. I've lived that life before. And I cannot let it happen to you. I will do whatever I can to prevent you from living that way. Do you hear me? I love you too much to let you live only for me.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies)
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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Evelyn Underhill
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I think being yourselfβ€”your true, entire selfβ€”is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.” β€œYeah,” she said. β€œBut if the last few years with you have been any indication, I think it also feels like taking your bra off at the end of the day.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, β€œthat when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that’s the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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It is two A.M., and you are tired. You miss the love of your life. You want to go home. You would rather be with her, in bed, hearing the light buzz of her snoring, watching her sleep, than be here. [...] You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I love you,” I said. β€œI believe in you. Break a leg.” When my hand turned the doorknob, she called to me. β€œIf I don’t win,” she said, her wet hair dripping onto the spaghetti straps of her slip, β€œwill you still love me?” I thought she was joking until I looked directly into her eyes. β€œYou could be a nobody living in a cardboard box, and I’d still love you,” I said. I’d never said that before. I’d never meant it before. Celia smiled wide. β€œMe too. The cardboard box and all of it.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
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THAT’S HOW MY STORY ENDS. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved. With me, in a big, beautiful Upper East Side apartment, missing everyone who ever meant anything to me. When you write the ending, Monique, make sure it’s clear that I don’t love this apartment, that I don’t care about all my money, that I couldn’t give a rat’s ass if people think I’m a legend, that the adoration of millions of people never warmed my bed. When you write the ending, Monique, tell everyone that it is the people I miss. Tell everyone that I got it wrong. That I chose the wrong things most of the time. When you write the ending, Monique, make sure the reader understands that all I was ever really looking for was family. Make sure it’s clear that I found it. Make sure they know that I am heartbroken without it. Spell it out if you have to. Say that Evelyn Hugo doesn’t care if everyone forgets her name. Evelyn Hugo doesn’t care if everyone forgets she was ever alive. Better yet, remind them that Evelyn Hugo never existed. She was a person I made up for them. So that they would love me. Tell them that I was confused, for a very long time, about what love was. Tell them that I understand it now, and I don’t need their love anymore. Say to them, β€œEvelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.” Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I miss him all the time. But it’s moments like this, when I’m on the precipice of finally doing work that might just expand my heart, that I wish I could at least send him a letter, telling him what I’m doing. And I wish that he could send me one back. I already know what he would write. Something like β€œI’m proud of you. I love you.” But still, I’d like to get one anyway.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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I loved you so much, that I thought you were the meaning of my life," Celia said, crying. "I thought that people were put on Earth to find other people, and I was put on Earth to find you. To find you, and touch your skin, and smell your breath, and hear all your thoughts. But I don't think that's true anymore." She wiped her eyes. "Because I don't want to be meant for someone like you.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
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The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.
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Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)