252 quotes found
“So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't ne...”
“When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program 'So Weird' was every kid's ideal life - not going to school, living on a tour bus, having rockst...”
“I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.”
“Hey Alecto, film this! she called out. With the slide being as tall as a two-storey house, it felt slightly risky being up there. On second thought, why dont you come up here? Its a blast being up ...”
“Alecto Sydney Steele, an entity of few words whom society managed to overlook as it rapidly dove into the 21st century. Everything about him, his interests, his friends, his own life, was constantl...”
“You should find something better to do with your time, Mandy told him. I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up.Come again? Alecto questioned with a tone ...”
“Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most wri...”
“On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did.”
“Yeah, youre right about having entire rooms full of film and photos in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage I have a few projectors, I have piles o...”
“Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearths awful behavior, Mandy suggested with optimism.The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasnt murdered us both yet, said Alecto, lighting anoth...”
“We get along like a house on fire these days.”
“There are some things in the past that that just arent meant to be viewed.”
“The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth.”
“Youre such a great liar when you lie to yourself.”
“The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Danger...”
“She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisone...”
“Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.”
“What goes up, must come down." Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be tha...”
“Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.”
“Just because something isnt good doesnt mean its bad.”
