“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Source: Forbidden Falls
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
— John Green, book An Abundance of Katherines
Colin Singleton, p. 111
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
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“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927) <br class="br">Variant: If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Ted Bundy book The Stranger Beside Me
Quoted by Bill Hagmaier. Rule, Ann (2009). The Stranger Beside Me (Paperback; updated 2009 ed.). New York: Pocket Books pages 380–96.