637 quotes found
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision,...”
“You can’t fight like this. You’re not prepared and you are in no means in control of your emotions.””
“We should’ve thrown fucking riots the first time they had us ring up and bag our owngroceries”
“And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”
“This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior”
“When I was achild my worldwasn’t blackand white,it was grey,until I gotbeat upenough timesto realizemy skin wasbeige, anddifferent”
“Some days I’mtrying to forcea smile sohard it feelslike I mightshit my pants”
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bi...”
“But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own”
“In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.”
“We aim to bemen who’ll makeour mothers proud,but we end upmaking them cry,and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers,at best”
“A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in ...”
“It’s sadthat burnt marshmallowsmake me think ofmethamphetamine,when theyshould bringback childhoodmemories ofs’mores”
“That's enough!" Holly scrambled out of her seat, too. "My three-year-old behaves better than all of you." She looked down at LJ, who was trying to stuff a fry up his nostril. "And that's not saying...”
“He’s here! That’s Damon over there!”Because of his height, Noah had a clear shot of the man she was pointing to. But he still couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “Oh, come on,” he groaned. “A blon...”
“Humans were made for love and beauty”
“Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself”
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”
“Death and life were just adjacent verandas.”
“The piano—that, too, was an adventure. A little girl tried to learn to play it. Her mother insisted, forced her to sit there and practice. Nothing came of it; stubbornness won out in the end, the s...”
