Quotes About Judgment

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

You are not a beautiful girl, and even if you were, you know that is not related to how much sex a person has. Plenty of ugly people have sex. Plenty of ordinary people have sex. Plenty of beautiful people spend their nights alone.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

The second man I meet is Andrew, and he has dirty fingernails so I can't notice if he is nice or not. I can even eat my brown sugar and butter crêpes because, oy gevalt , I'm so distracted by these fingernails. I mean, what was he doing before he came on this date? Competitive gardening? Burying the last woman he dated?

I think they're in love." Sam sniffed, as if the idea of it, love, was ridiculous. "You disapprove, I take it?" "Marx is always in love. He's an emotional harlot. What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?" "Marx is great," Sadie said. "I think he's lucky.

The key to happiness in life is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

In the end, they didn't like her because they didn't like her. She wasn't going to reason them out of their dislike. She wasn't going to teach anyone anything.

Why was it acceptable for apparently well-meaning people to see the world in such a general way?

A.J. apologizes but he is not sorry. Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?

I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices— literally their own devices—they read crap and they don't know the difference.

I didn't call you because I had met someone better, and when that didn't work out, I decided to give you a second chance. So don't be thinking you're superior. You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

saw a show where a convicted murderer did law school by correspondence so that he could try to get himself acquitted." "I'm not a murderer," she said. "I'm a slut, and you can't be acquitted of that.

And maybe some of those people will pause before they say gaydar." "They'll pause and say, 'Now I know this isn't PC . . .' and then, they'll say it anyway," Archie says.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered. "Style, no substance, my friend.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, "What is your favorite book?

You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming. Sunday

Las cubiertas son las cenicientas de las editoriales. Les echamos la culpa de todo.

You will be standing in that square forever. You will wear that "A" until you're dead. You consider your options. You have no options.

In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.

Que algo sea bueno o aceptado universalmente no es motivo suficiente para rechazarlo.

Well, I'm warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.

Yo podría ser un mal libro con una cubierta bonita [...]. —Nada de eso. Llevo años viéndote en la estantería. He leído la sinopsis y las citas de la contraportada.

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