51 quotes found
“I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger”
“I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.”
“At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at...”
“They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.”
“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”
“You do this often?" she asked."Drink or hijack women?”
“She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a...”
“Pete's a good guy.""He just slept with my mother!""I didn't say he was perfect.”
“Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in...”
“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hu...”
“There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.”
“Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they dont know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think th...”
“Let's run away.""To where?" "Alaska." "What's in Alaska?" "No clue," I whispered. "Find out with me.”
“She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.""That's not any better!”
“Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm. Penny SweeneyMagic All Around”
“She lifted me back into the seat with a wicked grin, and breathed, 'Just dont stop talking. Whatever you do, just dont stop talking,' and swallowed my manhood. I scrambled desperately through the d...”
“I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.”
“Im really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.”
“She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth.""Um, okay. So what is it?""Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about ...”
“Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.”
