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Quotes About Admiration

Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
~ Nora Roberts
Ti ho amata per più di dodici anni, Cassandra. Ti amavo quando eri la moglie di un altro e quando hai partorito i suoi figli. Ti amavo quando non potevo fare niente per aiutarti a uscire dall'inferno in cui vivevi. E ti amo ancora adesso
~ Nora Roberts
I love you. I love everything about you. Your voice, your laugh. Your eyebrows when they grow back. Your face, your body, your hard head and your cautious heart. I want to spend the rest of my life looking at you, listening to you, working with you, just being with you. Rowan of the purple lupines.
~ Nora Roberts
She didn't like to be read so easily but she couldn't help respecting someone who could.
~ Nora Roberts
He was good with women, he reminded himself. Probably because he just liked them—the way they looked, sounded, smelled—the strange way their minds worked. Toddler to great-granny, he enjoyed the female for who and what she was. He'd
~ Nora Roberts
You're the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. And I've been fortunate enough to see a great deal of beauty.
~ Nora Roberts
I never knew you had such a shoulder fixation." "I do when they're attached to a body like that one.
~ Nora Roberts
I like looking at you.
~ Nora Roberts
She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.
~ Nora Roberts
She didn't listen to New Kids on the Block all the time and make girly eyes over them. That was a plus.
~ Nora Roberts
Love, he thought. It could make you a fool or a hero. Or both at once.
~ Nora Roberts
Once you lose someone's respect it is the hardest thing to win back
~ Christos Tsiolkas
It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's not that I want to get mar­ried. I ad­mire guys who can com­mit to a tat­too.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No­body wants to wor­ship you if you have the same prob­lems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hang­nails, as a reg­ular per­son. You have to be ev­ery­thing reg­ular peo­ple aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what peo­ple are too afraid to be. Be­come whom they ad­mire.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It was hard not to love a man who so steadfastly ignored the awful truth about her. But it was even more difficult to respect him.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How many bodybuilders does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It takes four. One bodybuilder to screw in the bulb, and three others to watch and say, "Really, dude, you look huge!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
nemo enim umquam est oratorem, quod Latine loqueretur, admiratus; si est aliter, inrident neque eum oratorem tantum modo, sed hominem non putant.
~ Cicero
even reflected glory can be intoxicating.
~ Claire Cook
Katherine Mansfield, clearly speaking personally, had remarked wryly in 1924 that "the true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone—reading between the lines—has become the secret friend of their author,"54
~ Claire Harman
she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.34
~ Claire Harman
To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a novel even while appreciating its value.
~ Claire Messud