Quotes About Engagement

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

It's much better to be too easily interested.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention.

This is A Moment, stay with it, I told myself

You don't find life by fleeing from it.

Everyone has something to contribute. Everyone but sociopaths.

Can I help you?" Katie asks as she and Libby approach him.

He lived in this resplendent house with his fiancée, Paloma Pascal

To be a winner, you gotta be in the game.

He said, "Busy is happy," and I suspected that his mother had counseled him about the satisfaction and the peace that come from giving to the world whatever you are capable of contributing.

On a few occasions, he has even approached her

Just then he gets a text message from Ace of Diamonds with a destination. He

Lively conversation would have helped her remain alert, but Trahern was not a raconteur with a trove of sparkling anecdotes.

Einstein watched with interest and did not seem even slightly woozy from his half-bottle of San Miguel. "Okay," Travis said, "I need

The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it's dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I'm in the mood to deal with a cause.

One of Dorian Purcell's rules for living a good life was that no matter what you were doing, whether it was building a giant tech company or banging your mistress, breaking a competitor and driving him into ruin or playing pinball, you had to commit to it as if it was everything, as if your very survival depended on it.

He ejects the depleted magazine from the

I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I've always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library.

the Girl Scout Cookie drives I'd organized, and how I'd been class mother for both Paul and Allie in their grade-school years. The last year Paul was in junior high, I'd been president of the PTA. My kids' teeth were straight, and they both were grounded and obtained above-average grades.

The pastor made a funny comment. He said that when he taught marriage classes most of those attending took naps. It was the divorce classes where everyone took notes.

It's said that there are men who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

You know I'm living vicariously through you.

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