56 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what shed always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girls dream, if she cant have a vampire....”
“An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.”
“I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.”
“The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were...”
“You cant imagine the white-hot fury someone who cant sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.”
“A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholom Chassene earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged ...”
“Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.”
“Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unn...”
“Out there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.”
“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, were completely beside ourselves.”
“There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian la...”
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”
“We don't choose whom we love, he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishe...”
“He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.”
“The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes th...”
“But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.”
“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”
“Like they say, you never know a person till youve done time with them.”
“Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.”
“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”
