26 quotes found
“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
“Never eat anything bigger than your ass.”
“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be”
“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
“suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right”
“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”
“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its...”
“When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.”
“Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gu...”
“For the old people in my familyMummy, the aunties, Granddadthe accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what Id like to know.”
“Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.”
“My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts...”
“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”
“My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.”
“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
“Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.”
“In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.”
