Top 28 Kubica Mary Quotes
#1. The Chicago winter is harsh. But every now and then God blesses us with a thirty-or forty-degree day to remind us that misery comes and goes.
Mary Kubica
#2. Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.
Geoffrey Batchen
#3. But he holds me so tightly that for a moment, the emotions are at bay. The sadness and fear, the regret and the loathing. He bottles them up inside his arms so that for a split second I don't have to be the one carrying the weight of them. For this moment, the burden is his.
Mary Kubica
#4. Another day the ladybugs arrive. Thousands of them, soaking up the sun on the back door. It's an Indian summer day, warm, with temperatures in the upper sixties and plentiful sun.
Mary Kubica
#5. We walk quickly, hurrying to the car parked on Ainslie.
Mary Kubica
#6. he'd say. Sacrilege. But Joseph never did
Mary Kubica
#7. The goal with teenagers is simply getting through it alive, with no permanent damage.
Mary Kubica
#8. She's disoriented, her visions cluttered, random memories running adrift in her mind.
Mary Kubica
#9. Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless.
Greg Keyes
#10. Momma used to say, "We don't have much, but at least we have each other." And then one day, we didn't even have that much.
Mary Kubica
#11. The weathermen warn us for days of the impending snowstorm that's to arrive Thursday night. The grocery stores have run out of bottle water as people prepare to take shelter in their homes; my God, I think, it's winter, an annual certainty, not the atomic bomb.
Mary Kubica
#12. My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh
#13. I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.
Mary Kubica
#14. The kind of roommate who greets me at the door, who makes me dinner, who would bring me coffee and bagels every single day of the week if I asked her to.
Mary Kubica
#15. But mostly I think of the things I didn't do.
Mary Kubica
#16. my very own knight in shining armor (he just doesn't know it yet)
Mary Kubica
#17. Anything so that we can stop talking about me and what an utmost disappointment I am.
Mary Kubica
#18. I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.
Mary Kubica
#20. I've dated exactly three girls in my life, not a one that lasted for longer than two weeks.
Mary Kubica
#22. How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?
Mary Kubica
#23. But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.
Mary Kubica
#25. I could have spent my time hugging you or I could have spent my time telling you not to touch hot stoves or take candy from men. Which did you want?
Laurie Notaro
#26. I know how women are. A little camaraderie can fix anything.
Mary Kubica
#27. As it was, being a bad mother was child's play compared to being a good mother, which was an incessant struggle, a lose-lose situation 24 hours a day; long after the kids were in bed the torment of what I did or didn't do during those hours we were trapped together would scourge my soul.
Mary Kubica
#28. She says that in Chicago she used to wish on airplanes because there were far more of those floating around in the night sky than stars. There
Mary Kubica
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