Julia Hoban quote: "You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good."

I bought you something" Willows blurts out.
"You bought...What?"
Willow closes her eyes fo...
JULIA HOBAN

If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly
JULIA HOBAN

If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life
JULIA HOBAN

I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
...
JULIA HOBAN

I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you
JULIA HOBAN

We'd already talked in the stacks, and I knew you were different from any other girl I'd met. And yo...
JULIA HOBAN

...her hand closes on smooth metal. Her fingers test the sharpness of the edge. Perfect. It's a fres...
JULIA HOBAN

Her brother is crying, he is wretched and broken. Though his sobs are barely audible, he is weeping ...
JULIA HOBAN

It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.
JULIA HOBAN

-Acabo de comprender por qué alguien quiso hacer el primer espejo,

- Porque?

...
JULIA HOBAN

And yet, as she sits there with him on the window seat, with his strong arms around her, she knows t...
JULIA HOBAN

But with you, well, the things you say ... You do get it, and that does make me feel ... better." Wi...
JULIA HOBAN

—Acabo de comprender por qué alguien quiso hacer el primer espejo.
Willow parpadea sorprend...
JULIA HOBAN

Es difícil guardar un secreto cuando lo llevas escrito por todo el cuerpo
JULIA HOBAN

If someone were to look carefully, the angry red marks underneath the fine cotton of her blouse woul...
JULIA HOBAN

She watches as the blood springs from the cut she's making, but it doesn't change anything. Not this...
JULIA HOBAN

And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to f...
JULIA HOBAN

How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors...
JULIA HOBAN

And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is...
JULIA HOBAN

oh brave new world that has such a person in it.
JULIA HOBAN

Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagi...
JULIA HOBAN

Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting di...
JULIA HOBAN

I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror... I think some lover wanted his ...
JULIA HOBAN

If she let herself, she’d drown in a world of pain
JULIA HOBAN

Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll car...
JULIA HOBAN

...if this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.
JULIA HOBAN

It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body...
JULIA HOBAN

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have...
RUSSELL HOBAN

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp...
RUSSELL HOBAN

Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort ...
RUSSELL HOBAN

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's...
RUSSELL HOBAN

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a m...
RUSSELL HOBAN

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm ki...
RUSSELL HOBAN

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If...
RUSSELL HOBAN

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they ...
RUSSELL HOBAN

There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.
'Did he bite you?' said Father.
'No,' said Fra...
RUSSELL HOBAN

There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same m...
RUSSELL HOBAN

Things don't end; They just accumulate
RUSSELL HOBAN

The costs are ungodly. But FEMA is willing to do anything it can to get acreage with access to the i...
ROBERT HOBAN

O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
RUSSELL HOBAN

Stoans want to be lissent to. Them big brown stoans in the formers feal they want to stan up and tal...
RUSSELL HOBAN

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
RUSSELL HOBAN

(Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)
'How can the wind have a...
RUSSELL HOBAN

What I am
is tired of jam.
RUSSELL HOBAN

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write ab...
JULIA GLASS

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...
JULIA GILLARD

That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are ear...
JULIA GLASS

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. Al...
JULIA GLASS

I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect....
JULIA MICHAELS

When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you'...
JULIA CHILD

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Pet...
JULIA GILLARD

When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But yo...
JULIA MICHAELS

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
JULIA GLASS

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for...
JULIA STILES

From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flas...
JULIA LARNED

I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look ...
JULIA ROBERTS

We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES

when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig...
JULIA GREGSON

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
JULIA WOODRUFF

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ...
JULIA GLASS

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.
JULIA QUINN

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my li...
JULIA QUINN

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put y...
JULIA GREGSON

It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.
JULIA FIERRO

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not ...
JULIA QUINN

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often th...
JULIA KAVANAGH

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS

I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes of...
JULIA ROBERTS

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally ...
JULIA CAMERON

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL

Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.
JULIA CHILD

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
JULIA CAMERON

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th...
JULIA ROBERTS

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t...
JULIA ROBERTS

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
JULIA QUINN

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY

I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I o...
JULIA STILES

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i...
JULIA CAMERON

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn'...
JULIA CHILD

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
JULIA ROBERTS

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this ag...
JULIA STILES

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
JULIA LEIGH

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro...
JULIA GLASS

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my g...
JULIA ROBERTS

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love t...
JULIA CHILD

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone proble...
JULIA CHILD

If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's...
JULIA MICHAELS

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that'...
JULIA ROBERTS

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
JULIA ROBERTS

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay...
JULIA ROBERTS

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
JULIA ROBERTS

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best w...
JULIA ROBERTS

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
JULIA ROBERTS

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cook...
JULIA ROBERTS

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kind...
JULIA ROBERTS

Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
JULIA ROBERTS

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers co...
JULIA ROBERTS

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
JULIA ROBERTS

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation fo...
JULIA ROBERTS

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've re...
JULIA ROBERTS

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
JULIA ROBERTS

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS

I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person...
JULIA SAWALHA

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.
JULIA STILES

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
JULIA MORGAN

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
JULIA MORGAN

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
JULIA MORGAN

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.
JULIA SAWALHA

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.
JULIA CHILD

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of ...
JULIA CHILD

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a love...
JULIA CHILD

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food pr...
JULIA CHILD

To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This a...
JULIA CHILD

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of ev...
JULIA CHILD

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r...
JULIA CHILD

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and a...
JULIA CHILD

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...
JULIA CHILD

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had a...
JULIA CHILD

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
JULIA CHILD

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. ...
JULIA CHILD

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come i...
JULIA CHILD

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs...
JULIA CHILD

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season ...
JULIA CHILD

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your ...
JULIA CHILD

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who'...
JULIA CHILD

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
JULIA CHILD

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a wh...
JULIA CHILD

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he...
JULIA BARR

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a b...
JULIA CHILD

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty s...
JULIA CAMERON

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pic...
JULIA CHILD

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet ...
JULIA QUINN

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learn...
JULIA CAMERON

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'go...
JULIA CAMERON

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made...
JULIA CAMERON

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always...
JULIA GLASS

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and ...
JULIA SWEENEY

I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I res...
JULIA STILES

Alan had loved her breakfast pastries best; Charlie craved her pies. He liked them true-blue America...
JULIA GLASS

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a c...
JULIA CAMERON

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularl...
JULIA LEIGH

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters&...
JULIA GLASS

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
JULIA CHILD

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By na...
JULIA GILLARD

I was successful and I enjoyed modeling, but it got to a point where I felt like I had 'been the...
JULIA VOTH

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader a...
JULIA ROBERTS

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to h...
JULIA SAWALHA

I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thi...
JULIA SAWALHA

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's ...
JULIA CHILD

I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always...
JULIA GLASS

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a...
RAUL JULIA

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage c...
JULIA STILES

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude ...
JULIA GLASS

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Be...
JULIA CAMERON

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't pa...
JULIA CHILD

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, ...
JULIA CHILD

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent ...
JULIA GLASS

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
JULIA CAMERON

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a...
JULIA SAWALHA

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now ...
JULIA SAWALHA

If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of...
JULIA GLASS

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
JULIA GLASS

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. So...
JULIA ROBERTS

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it...
JULIA CHILD

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thi...
JULIA ROBERTS

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I ...
JULIA VOTH

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - espe...
JULIA SAWALHA

Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pra...
JULIA CAMERON

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: you...
RAUL JULIA

True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ord...
JULIA CAMERON

I’m not trying to impress you,” he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. “Gads,” he...
JULIA QUINN

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
JULIA STILES

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legit...
JULIA ROBERTS

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cypr...
JULIA QUINN

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...
JULIA CHILD

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance clas...
JULIA STILES

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
JULIA CHILD

A party without cake is just a meeting
JULIA CHILD

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
JULIA CAMERON

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democ...
JULIA BACHA

I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies ...
JULIA LONDON

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to a...
JULIA GLASS

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that'...
JULIA ROBERTS

Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cle...
JULIA GLASS

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.
JULIA SAWALHA

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL

The King is dead! Long live the King!
JULIA PARDOE

You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good.

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You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good.

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