Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The house is a factory.
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.
Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.
I see colors like you hear jet planes.
It is no way to live, to wait to love.
I often cannot believe the things I do.
It all meant something. Until it didn't.
You're breaking out of character, again.
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
We see the beauty within and cannot say no.
Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.
Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.
A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.
He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.
Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.
The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.
We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.
When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.
Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.
We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.
Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana
I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.
We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.