Kubica Quotes

#1. The goal with teenagers is simply getting through it alive, with no permanent damage.

Mary Kubica

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

Cindy Sheehan

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

Andy Andrews

#8. 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

#9. She's disoriented, her visions cluttered, random memories running adrift in her mind.

Mary Kubica

#10. Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.

Raymond Chandler

#11. Talent alone isn't enough," said Marcus. "You must adhere to good spell design practices. Even the most talented wizards can get careless and sloppy.

Jeremy Kubica

#12. he'd say. Sacrilege. But Joseph never did

Mary Kubica

#13. We walk quickly, hurrying to the car parked on Ainslie.

Mary Kubica

#14. 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

#15. I have noticed that agencies which are full of fun and ferment seem to create the best advertising. If you are not happy in advertising, for goodness sake find a job in which you would be happy. For as far as I know, we pass this way only once

David Ogilvy

#16. I liked being inside the head of someone who reveals himself unknowingly while he still thinks most people find him sympathetic. DG:

Herman Koch

#17. 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

#18. That I love her. That I'm sorry.

Mary Kubica

#19. But mostly I think of the things I didn't do.

Mary Kubica

#20. 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

#21. An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Charles Dickens

#22. 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

#23. I know how women are. A little camaraderie can fix anything.

Mary Kubica

#24. It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Guy Kawasaki

#25. 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

#26. How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?

Mary Kubica

#27. Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

Eric Holder

#28. I've dated exactly three girls in my life, not a one that lasted for longer than two weeks.

Mary Kubica

#29. Ublala Pung grunted a laugh. 'They'd never find her if it was a manhunt.

Steven Erikson

#30. We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.

Francis Chan

#31. I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.

Mary Kubica

#32. Anything so that we can stop talking about me and what an utmost disappointment I am.

Mary Kubica

#33. my very own knight in shining armor (he just doesn't know it yet)

Mary Kubica

#34. We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

St. Jerome