113 quotes found
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“What a beautiful day to go to hell”
“He was cross-examining my subconscious .”
“No one here is embarrassed of their gift.”
“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
“If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It...”
“She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.”
“I didnt know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”
“...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
“Millard! Who's the prime minister?""Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?""What's the capital of Burma?""Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?""Good! When's your birthday?""Will you quit shoutin...”
“At the heart of natures mystery lies another mystery.”
“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.”
“..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.”
“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wante...”
“I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is ma...”
“It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didnt, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, ...”
“Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it”
“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middl...”
“I'd never asked what year it was here-1492? 1750?-though to the animals I guess it hardly mattered. This was a safe place apart from the world of people, and only in the world of people did the yea...”
“You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.”
“They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.”
“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.”
