WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Haruki Murakami
THE FALL
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
Albert Camus
THE RULES OF ATTRACTION
"No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other."
Bret Easton Ellis
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
Charles Dickens
THE BELL JAR
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
Sylvia Plath
THE ROAD
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
Cormac McCarthy
MIDDLESEX
"The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin."
Jeffrey Eugenides
LONG GOODBYE
"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself."
Raymond Chandler
LOLITA
"The more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes."
Vladimir Nabokov
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Harper Lee
ON THE ROAD
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
Jack Kerouac
THE KILLER INSIDE ME
"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."
Jim Thompson
HIGH FIDELITY
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
Nick Hornby
THE WHITE LIONESS
"Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them."
Henning Mankell
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
"It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day."
Roddy Doyle
BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN AND WEPT
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Paulo Coelho
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Ernest Hemingway
FREEDOM
"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."
Jonathan Franzen
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