537 quotes found
“When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates ...”
“Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.”
“What did he want? What did he mean he was in the right place?”
“Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the front entrance. A night breeze swooshed leaves throughout the parking lot.”
“Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy”
“We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.”
“You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.”
“Oliver Marley supposed there were more dignified ways to end his life. A lifelong victim to the twin sins of an infertile imagination and pragmatism, the thought of travel simply never crossed his ...”
“No matter how pale and pure and perfect you are, the moon is even more perfect.”
“Greed is a strange, strange sin.All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is I want, I want, I want but tha...”
“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of...”
“Tell me a truth, Senna.""I don't know how.""Then tell me a lie.""I don't love you.""The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.”
“Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be?”
“Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.”
“Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good”
“There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.”
“The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.”
“Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence...”
“That's why writers writeto say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”
“Tell me a truth, Senna.""I don't know how," I breath."Then tell me a lie.""I don't love you," I say. I sink beneath the weight of it all.Isaac stirs behind me, and then he is leaning over me, his e...”
