Quotations (16)

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“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create…
“There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the…
Just noted that goodreads has several pages of quotes now. Below are ones I collected independently: “At one point I had forty kids in the gym, and a few teachers, and the principal, and some were crying, and some were shivering, and some…
I think it makes me look like a tigress! A fat, frumpy tigress. Like if Catwoman got really out of shape.” Johnny Deepenau was a Budweiser-drinking, football-watching, Donald Trump–voting, stone-cold bozo who never read anything deeper…
All of France’s wine country was nothing but ash now, which meant the stain on her blouse was probably worth a few thousand dollars on the black market. She had never worn anything so expensive. She loped jaggedly off course. No, that…
“But Snuffleupagus was real.” “That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that.” “It’s not magic. It’s a miracle,” Carol said, like someone identifying the…
…most human lives were unfair, brutal, full of loss and grief and confusion. Most human lives were and are too short. Most people have lived out their days hungry and barefoot, on the run from this war and that famine, a plague here and a…
“That’s right. You didn’t know it belonged to anyone. And the world is just full of free cars. They’re like picking daisies at the side of the road,” … it did not pay to be too impressed with a man just because he could ride a…
… Without someone higher to answer to, the law is just whoever’s holding the nightstick. A nightstick—or a dish towel full of rocks.” “I’ll be your candle on the water …My love for you will always burn “There’s always a little decency in…
“…These days, I’m not sure it’s ever a good idea to leave anything important for tomorrow.” I liked who I was when I was by his side, …how the romance between a moth and a candle usually ended: with the moth spinning to its death, wings…
“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone they can boss around and undress at will. They can work out their own aggression with a few fictional rape scenes.…
… his eyelids flutter, as if he were an ingénue in a 1940s musical comedy trying to look kissable. … I don’t want to try and live without him. I feel like I spent my whole life unable to taste food. Then Gil came to camp and suddenly…
… This is the problem with police states. The prison guards are prisoners, too, and most of them know it.” … Everyone loves a good deaf joke. Hey, why did God make farts stink? So deaf people could enjoy them, too.” . “Yes, my love.…
"Her eyes blazed like lamps, her skin hummed with warmth and pleasure, her thoughts soared away from her like a kestrel rising on a hot summer updraft, and for a few weeks everything was almost all right."
"The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deductions."
"Sometimes she felt that those intellectual aerobatics were a bit tiring; at those times she felt less as if they were feeling everything together, more as if she were simply his audience, someone to applaud his latest leap through the…