#terri

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#also #best #covers #creative #huge

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#bit #classics #consequences #five #him

Improvisation is terribly haphazard. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#improvisation #terribly

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. ↗

— Jean Dubuffet

#completely #eventual #expect #extinction #goodbye

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#failure #me #mere #symbolized #terrified

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. ↗

— Jane Grey

#although #attention #attentions #death #desires

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#impossible #intimacy #know #life #married

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#attitude #crime #habits #methods #mind

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place. ↗

— Libba Bray

#friendship #libba-bray #beauty