252 quotes found
“Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeares Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The sto...”
“Dont you think its better to continue reading than to just close the book?”
“I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.”
“These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?”
“Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, send...”
“People who mock incidents in history such as 9/11 or the Holocaust, referring to it all as a hoax or stirring up crazy conspiracy theories about it, should really stop and think about their words f...”
“When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal ...”
“More pathetic than the digital age is the people who love it. They buy right into the "newer is always better" ideology and they can't seem to grasp that the fun of VHS tapes, super 8 film, darkroo...”
“Hes completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.”
“She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels shed made in art class when she was seven years old. She found plastic swans on strings and red crystal cardinals. She found a blue-and-white rock...”
“The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960s of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a...”
“Every day its something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because theyll all be available electronically. She says that electric car...”
“Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's somethi...”
“Ive got money! Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. I mean, I dont know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but ...”
“Youre not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.”
“You have more issues than Reader's Digest.”
“Why do they lie? she asked herself aloud. They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.”
“Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you arent the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary, Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hateful...”
“I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost.”
“This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I dont know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and Im sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything Ive lived with, I have so man...”
