371 quotes found
“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”
“This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.”
“Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.”
“And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.”
“There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathing, and existing, sinks into oblivion. Your heart stops no matter how you try to get to her, she ...”
“Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.”
“I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.”
“This is one hell of a suicide note.THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-Yes! I've resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it;The heart I'll rush a dagger throughThough I in hell should rue it!Sweet stee...”
“A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.”
“You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer”
“The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.”
“...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.”
“The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant”
“I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.”
“I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard h...”
“I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.”
“I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.”
“...that this monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which he refrains from rendering more hideous by his actions...”
“If life gets you down.Just try digging a deeper hole.”
“What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?”
