Julie Orringer Quotes

#1. Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

Dan Chaon

#2. Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

Julie Orringer

#3. He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.

Julie Orringer

#4. Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Julie Orringer

#5. in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft.

James A. Connor

#6. No one can hold all of me at once. Does this constitute a crime?

Julie Orringer

#7. There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Strange, Andras thought, that war could lead you to involuntarily forgive a person who didn't deserve forgiveness, just as it might make you kill a man you didn't hate.

Julie Orringer

#9. Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

Andrew McMahon

#10. Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like, 'If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan.' The scammers will tell you that, so you have to be careful.

Jay Leno

#11. Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it.

Lian Tanner

#12. It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return.

Julie Orringer

#13. Judaism offered no Shivah for lost love. There was no Kaddish to say, no candle to burn...no injunction against listening to music or going to work.

Julie Orringer

#14. When he thought of the word mercy, it was the Yiddish word that came to his mind: rachmones, whose root was rechem, the Hebrew word for womb. Rachmones: a compassion as deep and as undeniable as what a mother felt for her child.

Julie Orringer

#15. As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. This was what dying meant, Helena thought-everything that had been you,leaving.

Julie Orringer

#17. Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Charles Macklin

#18. He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Julie Orringer

#19. Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

Julie Orringer

#20. was pregnant, his father had written back

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#21. The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.

Daniel Yergin

#22. I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.

Julie Orringer

#23. My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Haruki Murakami

#24. What is left of a woman once her last five pounds are gone?

Julie Orringer

#25. There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

Julie Orringer

#26. Dear Madame Morgenstern,
As absurd as it sounds, I've been thinking of you since we parted. I want to take you into my arms, tell you a million things, ask you a million questions. I want to touch your throat and unbutton the pearl button at your neck

Julie Orringer

#27. The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Grace Kelly

#28. Sometimes I freeze in front of the canvas, full of the knowledge that if I keep painting, sooner or later I will fail her

Julie Orringer

#29. I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.

Matt De La Pena

#30. Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

John Evelyn

#31. And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Julie Orringer

#32. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

Julie Orringer

#33. Willingly Andras followed him into the curved halls of calculus, where the problem of Madame Morgenstern could not exist because it could not be described by an equation.

Julie Orringer

#34. Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

Julie Orringer

#35. I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Julie Orringer

#36. Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

J.P. Donleavy

#37. He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past.

Julie Orringer

#38. A self-made man - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself

Caitlin Moran