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It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.


Susan Wiggs

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CHARLENE TILTON Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.
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VERONIKA CARNABY She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co...
HARPER LEE What did I do to make Mommy leave?”
“You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.”<...
LIBBA BRAY I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
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MICHAEL CURRY It doesn't seem real that your whole life can be taken away from you. I've done medical school and l...
CATHY JONES Maybe 20 years from now you'll be writing about me. And I'll be like Susan - hosting a Fresh Air Fun...
NICOLE DAVIS I don't think she would run away. She left her phone home, and no one has heard from her.
MANON CARRIE She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: i...
PAULO COELHO Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Som...
PAULA STOKES She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... S...
CAMERON CROWE Natalie had an unforgettable night. I know it's cliché, but she was in the zone. She attacked the r...
CARY THOMPSON Cancer ravaged her body, but it never took her spirit away. She was a fighter to the end.
ELAINE GAMPEL Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the pl...
E. M. FORSTER Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the pl...
E.M. FORSTER Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that y...
SANDY BLAIR I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC This is all too important.” Aenea smiled. “It’s all too important. That’s the damned problem...
DAN SIMMONS She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the...
A.A. MILNE She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. “How can you be so calm?”
He g...
ANGELA QUARLES Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could...
STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Maybe there aren’t any happily ever afters, or white knights who ride in on valiant steeds to save...
JULIE JOHNSON What’s going on?” Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.” She pulled a chair out ...
TAYLOR KEYS The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY Something about her is so tempting to look at. Her anger has a childish aura as if she isn’t made ...
CAMERON JACE So,” he said, flicking her nose, “how long have you wanted—”

“I don’t see how...
SARAH J. MAAS You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point.
BRYANT A. LONEY [About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as...
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Her life mattered and he took it all away.
CINDY MORGAN I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her...
JAIME CLAMPITT I was devastated and so was my granddaughter but there is nothing legally that anyone could do. I mi...
DEBRALEE BOWEN The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bom...
SARA SHERIDAN She’s an original! She doesn’t need to compete, copy, or envy other women. The confidence that�...
STEPHANIE LAHART Research shows that willpower is more important than IQ. That’s why the point isn’t to become sm...
ADAM KIRK SMITH It's just not fair. She has options in this. As a man, I have no options and am forced to live with ...
MATT DUBAY She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the...
DAN BROOKS We miss her. She had a happy life ... she was at a point in her life where she was comfortable with ...
AMY URIELL Will fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just sat back and took her in, s...
JANICE MIN Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a ...
CARMEN KASS She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that d...
KATARINA WITT She [Susan McDougal] thinks that it's very similar to what they did with her. Rememberwhen she would...
MARK GERAGOS Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now ...
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TOM HARKIN It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha...
TEENA MARIE I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it....
B.J. NOVAK wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her...
AMY TAN Although it was her who took his breath away, the father away she was, the more he suffocated.
SAMUEL H. LOWE She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY You know this girl.
Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN It was great. She never got behind. All her pitches were on today. I think she grew up as a pitcher ...
MAX HILL A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, ...
LESLIE LUDY When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That�...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It definitely affects your home life, but luckily my wife has been behind me 120 percent. She handle...
DAN GREGG You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."

"Oh I b...
RICHELLE MEAD She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels t...
ANNA GODBERSEN My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights o...
JANET RENO Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed....
ELLEN KENNEDY My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wi...
PAT CONROY The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that...
GENE WILDER Oh no." Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. ...
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman l...
LORD BYRON The lives that Gertrude has touched would fill this whole hospital. She'd give you her heart from he...
MARINA DANIELS I'll just go into the studio - as I always have with Brooklyn - with one under each arm.' (But maybe...
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ANNE RICE I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner thi...
SUSAN GLASPELL So now the sky was falling.
Maybe the end of the world. Maybe Jesus coming again.
That s...
MARY CONNEALY She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave...
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GREG COX No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking;...
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MARISSA MEYER While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." ...
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BARBARA WELCH This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. ...
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DAN WALDSCHMIDT She came in and did demonstrations and we (the girls and myself and other officials) learned from he...
BRENDA COFFEY They’d reached the point of no return, and she wanted to throw herself into the fire until the fla...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE She has changed my whole life after my mom passed away; she's like my mother, she is.
GLORIA GOMEZ Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w...
COURTNEY CAROLA I opened the trunk in the back of the van and pulled the little girl out and then I took her away fr...
ROBERT JOHNSON And she has no qualms about letting someone know if they are not maintaining their property to the s...
BARBARA PERRY She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her h...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that...
SHERRILYN KENYON Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
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SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
SUSAN SONTAG Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere...
SUSAN SONTAG Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ...
SUSAN CHEEVER Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the partic...
SUSAN ORLEAN Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w...
SUSAN LUCCI Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm...
SUSAN VREELAND Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ...
SUSAN CAIN Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessive...
SUSAN CAIN Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosi...
SUSAN WOJCICKI These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...
SUSAN COLLINS There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s...
SUSAN SONTAG Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo...
SUSAN ISAACS Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern...
SUSAN ERTZ