Beth Harbison quotes

“I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.”
-- Beth Harbison

Source : Beth Harbison (2007). “Shoe Addicts Anonymous”, p.207, Macmillan

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“We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.”
-- Beth Harbison

Source : Beth Harbison (2011). “Always Something There to Remind Me”, p.28, Macmillan

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“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”
-- Beth Harbison

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“I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.”
-- Beth Harbison

Source : Beth Harbison (2013). “Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger”, p.80, Macmillan

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“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.”

“Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.”

“I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”