“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”

— Michael Chabon , book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

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Michael Chabon 96

Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 46

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

“At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

"Old Mortality" in Pale Horse (1939)
Context: I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.