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Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? Nick Hornby
We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller
Yes,' said Catherine, stroking his long soft hair, 'if I could only get papa's consent, I'd spend half my time with you - Pretty Linton! I wish you were my brother.' 'And then you would like me as well as your father?' observed he more cheerfully. 'But papa says you would love me better than him, and all the world, if you were my wife-so I'd rather you were that!' 'No! I should never love anybody better than papa,' she returned gravely. 'And people hate their wives, sometimes; but not their... Emily Bronte
Virginia Woolf quote: "Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say..."
Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'. Virginia Woolf
And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me. Lady Gregory
His trees were now hung all over with scrawled pieces of paper and bits of cardboard with maxims from Seneca and Shaftesbury, and with various objects; clusters of feathers, church candles, crowns of leaves, women's corsets, pistols, scales, tied to each other in certain order. The Ombrosians used to spend hours trying to guess what those symbols meant: nobles, Pope, virtue, war? I think some of them had no meaning at all but just served to jog his memory and make him realize that even the... Italo Calvino
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. Anne Bronte
Suzanne Collins quote: "If he dies, I'll never go home. I'll spend the rest of my life..."
If he dies, I'll never go home. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out. Suzanne Collins
Kyle, every boy pays for kisses. Do you know what I am saying? If you've got a girl, and she kisses you, sooner or later you're paying for it. You've gotta take her out to lunch, take her to a movie, and then spend time listenin' to all her stupid problems. Look, look at Stan right there. [Kyle turns to see Stan, who's listening to Wendy over at the merry-go-round] Why he's gotta sit there and listen to her stupid motherfuckin' problems 'cause she kisses him. If you ask me, that's a lot more... Trey Parker
There is no difference in what we're doing in here, that doesn't show up as bigger symptoms out there. So why spend all our time in dressing our bandages, when we've the ultimate key to the cause right here, our underneath. Alanis Morissette
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth, and Mary Ellen was proof that even in the Appalachian woods I would not be spared. It became evident that she was a rarity. Bill Bryson
Saul Bellow quote: "You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering..."
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. Saul Bellow
It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone. Sherman Alexie
Sylvia Plath quote: "Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That..."
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. Sylvia Plath
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Joyce Brothers

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