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Curtis Sittenfeld

Geburtstag: 23. August 1975

Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin.

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„I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep

„The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

„Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep

„We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: American Wife

„Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: The Man of My Dreams

„… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep

„To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: American Wife

„I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep

„Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep

„I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: The Man of My Dreams

„If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: The Man of My Dreams

„There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you—that both are inherently unfeminist. I don’t agree. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Eligible

Quelle: Eligible

„We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: Sisterland

„What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: American Wife

„If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep

„I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: The Man of My Dreams

„And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

„Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quelle: American Wife

„I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep (2005), p. 325

„While I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.“

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— Curtis Sittenfeld, buch Prep

Quelle: Prep (2005), p. 321

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