Donna Rice Quotes

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her.

I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.

I think that's a big trope in pop music: the blaze-of-glory breakup. It's not one that I particularly identify with, but it's definitely possible.

If you are willing to say something about someone, you should be willing to say it on Twitter, to their face, whatever.

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

I eyed Dimitri, recalling a shadow in my periphery back in the ballroom. "You followed when I jumped in front of Lissa, didn't you? Who were you going for? Me or her?" He studied me for several long seconds. He could have lied. He could have given the easy answer by saying he'd intended to push both of us out of the way-if that was even possible, which I didn't recall. But Dimitri didn't lie. "I don't know, Roza. I don't know.

The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.