Top 450 Bonnie Garmus Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Almost no one bought this story. Dr. Meyers had a reputation.”

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402. “She was stiff, unforgiving. Truth be told, he felt a little sorry for her. No one turned this mean without having been a victim of the same.”

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403. “This time, though, we’ll make sure everyone knows you earned your place. You’re a bright girl, Lizzie. It’s possible.”

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404. “Not that you,” he said. “Not the ‘this is going to be really, really complicated’ you. Not the ‘far too many people do not appreciate the work and sacrifice that goes into being a wife, a mother, a woman’ you.”

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405. “There was an aquamarine water-filled quarry below; she’d hit it like a missile. Her toes.”

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406. “Believe me. But that’s not really your problem. It’s not that you want out.” She turned to look at him, confused. “It’s that you want back in.”

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407. “Constant adaptations brought about by a series of never-ending mistakes?”

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408. “What a mess devotion was.”

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409. “There was so much to do she couldn’t even make a to-do list because making a list was just one more thing to do. Plus, she still had all of her other.”

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410. “Mother of god,” Mrs. Sloane said as Elizabeth placed a cup of coffee in front of her. “Have you never heard of Folger’s?”

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411. “Roth stared down at the table. He’d had a normal upbringing – two parents, no suicides, no murders, not even a single wayward touch from a priest in his parish. And yet he still found plenty of to complain about. What was wring with him? Just as people had a bad habit of dismissing others’ problems and tragedies, so too did they have a bad habit of not appreciating what they have. Or had.”

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412. “She supposed it took a certain type of skill to be able to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.”

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413. “A fairy godmother is just another word for philanthropist.”

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414. “I believe in a few things,” he corrected. “Mostly the things about not giving up hope, not giving in to darkness.”

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415. “A man can make lunch, Mr. Pine. It is not biologically impossible.”

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416. “Humans. Some of them didn’t seem to grasp their actual status within the animal kingdom.”

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417. “And while Elizabeth wasn’t entirely keen on the idea – she was a research chemist – she took the job for the usual reasons: it paid more and she had a child to support.”

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418. “Well,” she said, “she keeps repeating how by Saturday night, she’ll finally be Mrs. Peter Dickman. As if changing her name is the finish line for a race she’s been in since she was six.”

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419. “She tried to talk with them, but each gave her the cold shoulder in their own way, and later, as she was walking by the lounge, she overheard the same few grousing about her – about how she took herself so seriously, how she thought she was better than any of them, how she’d refused dates from all of them, even the single men.”

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420. “Yet here she was, a single mother, the lead scientist on what had to be the most unscientific experiment of all time: the raising of another human being. Every day she found parenthood like taking a test for which she had not studied. The questions were daunting and there wasn’t nearly enough multiple choice.”

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421. “Because in a man’s mind, why else would a woman mention bombykol on a Friday evening in an empty parking lot when the soft breeze was coming out of the west carrying the scent of her extremely expensive shampoo directly into his nasal cavity unless it was all part of a plot to get more beakers?”

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422. “Just as people have a bad habit of dismissing others’ problems and tragedies, so too did they have a bad habit of not appreciating what they have.”

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423. “But why is saying what you think so rare?” “Because there are consequences,” Harriet said.”

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424. “This was called ignoring. Or wait, no. Ignorance.”

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425. “The problem with being a minister was how many times a day he had to lie. This was because people needed constant reassurance that things were okay or were going to be okay instead of the more obvious reality that things were bad and were only going to get worse.”

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426. “Which, he thought, as he grabbed his tennis shoes, had to be the very definition of love. To actually want to change for someone else.”

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427. “It wasn’t that he couldn’t function without her, but rather that he didn’t see the point of functioning without her.”

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428. “Did he sleep with other women? What a question. Didn’t everyone?”

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429. “Five minutes later, Roth was riding next to Elizabeth Zott in the front seat of her old blue Plymouth, the dog and the photographer relegated to the back. “He doesn’t bite, does he?” the photographer asked as he crammed himself against the window. “All dogs have the ability to bite,” she said over her shoulder. “Just as all humans have the ability to cause harm. The trick is to act in a reasonable way so that harm becomes unnecessary.”

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430. “You can’t fix it because the world doesn’t work that way. Life isn’t fair.”

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431. “Mrs. Mudford clicked her teeth. “You misunderstand me, Mrs. Zott. Children interrupt; that I can deal with. What I can’t deal with is a child who wants to change the discussion to civil rights. This is kindergarten, not The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”

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432. “In contrast, Supper at Six focuses on our commonalities – our chemistries. So even though our viewers may find themselves locked into a learned societal behavior – say, the old ‘men are like this, women are like that’ type of thing – the show encourages them to think beyond that cultural simplicity. To think sensibly. Like a scientist.”

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433. “Obviously, he knew how to find KCTV. Anyone who’d read The Incredible Journey would understand how un-incredible it was that dogs could find just about anything. He used to marvel at the needle in the haystack story Elizabeth had once read to him – marvel because what was so hard about finding a needle in a haystack? The scent of high carbon steel wire was unmistakable.”

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434. “That’s when it came to her. She would charge. Cash only.”

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435. “The biggest benefit in being the child of a scientist? Low safety bar.”

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436. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can’t change’?”

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437. “A society that believed men went to work and did important things – discovered planets, developed products, created laws – and women stayed at home and raised children. She didn’t want children – she knew this about herself – but she also knew that plenty of other women did want children and a career. And what was wrong with that? Nothing. It was exactly what men got.”

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438. “You’ve had so many, well, so many men dropping by at the oddest hours.” She cleared her throat. “It’s work,” Elizabeth said as she coaxed Madeline to take the bottle. “Whatever you want to call it,” Mrs. Sloane said.”

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439. “Elizabeth,” Harriet implored. “You have to watch her. I found her crawling into the washing machine yesterday.” “Don’t worry,” Elizabeth said, still staring at the test tubes. “I never start a load without checking first.”

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440. “Who wants to believe life is exactly how it seems?”

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441. “Zott, please! We’re women! You know very well Evans left you something!” And Elizabeth, eyes suddenly wide with recognition, was sick all over again.”

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442. “And such a pretty puppy!” the mother rejoined. “No,” the child said, “it’s not pretty. The puppy’s dead. It got killed!” Which Six-Thirty, after a second, closer look, found disturbingly accurate. “It is not a dead puppy,” the mother said sternly. “It is a very happy puppy, and it is eating a bowl of ice cream.” At which point the frustrated child flung.”

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443. “Calvin had believed persistence was innate; Elizabeth argued it was learned. Six-Thirty, on the other hand, thought persistence was intelligence.”

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444. “Or you could try my bowie knife,” Harriet suggested. “Let them know where you stand.”

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445. “Because while musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren’t. And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special – it’s just annoying.”

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446. “He was dead thirty-seven minutes later.”

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447. “Mrs. Sloane lifted her hands. “Well, Elizabeth, I’m Harriet.” And then there was an awkward silence, as if by sharing their names, they’d each revealed more than they’d planned.”

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448. “But really it was because of Mr. Sloane. He’d been drinking more and swearing more and the only way she knew how to deal with it was to stay away.”

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449. “Or perhaps your marriage is more of a covalent bond,” she said, sketching a new structural formula. “And if so, lucky you, because that means you both have strengths that, when combined, create something even better.”

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450. “Anyway, no one else knew how mad she was; she’d kept it to herself. Well, except during labor, when she might have shouted some regrettable things, her fingernails possibly digging into some unknown person’s forearm as the bigger contractions took hold. She remembered someone besides herself shrieking and swearing. It seemed strange and unprofessional.”

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