Scott Spencer Quotes

#1. I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.

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#2. You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

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#3. I thought of my mother ( ... ). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

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#4. A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

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#5. The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

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#6. I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.

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#7. I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

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#8. I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

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#9. Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

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#10. Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.

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#11. All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

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#12. I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

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#13. My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

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#14. It was the first time I had heard the truth of what happened that afternoon said in a voice that was not my own. Hearing what happened from Ann was like the difference between seeing your face in a mirror and seeing it in a photograph.

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#15. Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

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#16. It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

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#17. heavy, sullen girl with a face as blunt and expressionless as a knee,

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#18. If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses.

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#19. The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

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#20. On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

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#21. No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

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