Frases de Curtis Sittenfeld (23 citas)

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“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”

Fuente: Prep

“The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.”

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“Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.”

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Fuente: Prep

“We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.”

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Fuente: American Wife

“Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.”

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Fuente: The Man of My Dreams

“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

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Fuente: Prep

“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”

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Fuente: American Wife

“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”

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Fuente: Prep

“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

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Fuente: Prep

“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”

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Fuente: The Man of My Dreams

“If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.”

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Fuente: The Man of My Dreams

“There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you—that both are inherently unfeminist. I don’t agree. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.”

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Fuente: Eligible

“We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.”

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Fuente: Sisterland

“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”

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Fuente: American Wife

“If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.”

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Fuente: Prep

“I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.”

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Fuente: The Man of My Dreams

“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”

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“Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.”

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Fuente: American Wife

“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”

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Fuente: Prep (2005), p. 325

“While I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”

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Fuente: Prep (2005), p. 321

“I believed then that if you had a good encounter with a person, it was best not to see them again for as long as possible.”

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Fuente: Prep (2005), p. 159 cited in: The New Yorker (2004). Vol. 80, Nr. 38-45. p.87

“Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.”

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Fuente: Prep (2005), p. 104

“As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.”

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Fuente: Prep (2005), p. 9

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