311 quotes found
“The stars twinkled high above and reflected onto the cold window. I blew on the frosty glass and watched my breath fog up. I traced my initials across the cold glass, the condensation trickling dow...”
“The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.”
“Yes, King Eirik, I can't do this alone. I'm not a knight or even a fighter for that matter. I'm just a normal boy, who is looking for his Grandfather.”
“Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even p...”
“She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation...”
“@mink: Well, youre in luck, if you pick another movie. My hair is clean, I usually eat dinner around eight, and Im currently single. Not that it matters.”
“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The hero. The journey, The power of love. They are hardwired into us, just like our taste buds process s...”
“Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mi...”
“What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's...”
“He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, its addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.”
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excer...”
“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to mak...”
“I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.”
“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.”
“It's a tough world to find yourself in, but an even tougher one to be yourself in”
“Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core......”
“The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyones story is the biggest in their own mind. - Laylla Jonson”
“His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.”
“When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, When did you start feeling like a grownup? His response: Never.”
