Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.
Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.
You were perfect.” Cam dipped his mouth to mine. “Only because I was with you.
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.
If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.
You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.
A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.
If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.
Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.
One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.