Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.
But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.
Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.
I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.
I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.
I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.
So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.
I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre
That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.