Chuck Palahniuk quote: “There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

“She didn't want to know how much Ray had paid for it because that had nothing to do with its real value.”

Nicole Richie book The Truth About Diamonds

Source: The Truth About Diamonds (2005), p. 222

“She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

“Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

“All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

The Awakening (1899)

“Tessa’s hilarious… I think it’s one of the things that gets overlooked because she’s always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor. It’s been the joy of my life to have as many laughs as we’ve had along the way.”

Scott Moir (1987) Canadian figure skater

Scott Moir, quoted in "Scott & Tessa Say Their Relationship Is “So Much Better” than People Imagine" http://www.flare.com/celebrity/scott-tessa-say-their-relationship-is-so-much-better-than-people-imagine/ (26 February 2018)
Partnership with Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir about Virtue

“Tessa’s hilarious… I think it’s one of the things that gets overlooked because she’s always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor. It’s been the joy of my life to have as many laughs as we’ve had along the way.”

Tessa Virtue (1989) Canadian ice dancer

Scott Moir, quoted in "Scott & Tessa Say Their Relationship Is “So Much Better” than People Imagine" http://www.flare.com/celebrity/scott-tessa-say-their-relationship-is-so-much-better-than-people-imagine/ (26 February 2018)
Partnership with Scott Moir, Scott Moir about Virtue

“He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.”

Jerome David Salinger book Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), For Esmé — with Love and Squalor (1950)

“There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

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