25 quotes found
“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”
“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not eve...”
“Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the m...”
“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”
“Women have always been spies.”
“I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.”
“On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.”
“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”
“All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.”
“Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we ki...”
“On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicideit was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Theresethe two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer...”
“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in b...”
“This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.”
“Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.”
“Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
“The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.”
“Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-seven years: with an idiotin this case, Rebecca Atherton, head of the After the End Times Irwins, winner of the Golden Steve-o ...”
“My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a manin this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaunholding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood be...”
“Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texasbut not zombies.”
