Emma Matthews Quotes

#1. I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters in this drama. Emma Matthews and the men who loved her, who became obsessed with her. They're not important to us now.

J.P. Delaney

#2. Suddenly, in my mind I hear my father say, 'Mind over matter, son. You can do this. You can accomplish anything as long as you really want to.

Marc Ashton

#3. It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody.

George Orwell

#4. Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

Julian Gough

#5. I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.

Deborah Eisenberg

#6. The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive.

J.P. Delaney

#7. Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself.

Esi Edugyan

#9. All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?

J.P. Delaney

#10. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

John Krasinski

#11. I know it must look odd, given that I didn't even know Emma. But it seems to me that almost no one really knew her. Everyone I speak to has a different version of what she was like.

J.P. Delaney

#12. I don't like labels. I won't be defined by words like normal, unbalanced, or damaged. There's so much more to me than words. I have layers, just like the next person, and if you picked me apart layer-by-layer, you'd find a blackened crust where my heart should be.

Belle Aurora

#13. Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

Claire Matthews

#14. I don't want anything from you, Edward. If you'd only told me you were still in love with Emma - '

'You don't understand,' he interrupts. 'It was like an illness. I hated myself every second I was with her.

J.P. Delaney

#15. I'll tell you something that was unusual, though. When most people are caught lying to the police, they cave in pretty quickly. Emma's response was to tell another lie. It might have been planted in her head by her brief, but even so that's not a common reaction.

J.P. Delaney

#16. Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

Chiang Kai-shek

#17. If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

Scott Rudin

#18. That was Emma - she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.

J.P. Delaney

#19. Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness - these are the only things that are real.

J.P. Delaney

#20. But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We both know it. Now I know your worst secrets and you know mine. Isn't that what you've always wanted? For us to be completely honest with each other?

J.P. Delaney

#21. Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe