410 quotes found
“Where are these fucking guns coming from?”
“I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what th...”
“Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.”
“Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.”
“Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!”
“Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.”
“The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.”
“Are you a traveling man he asked?”
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this w...”
“Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long li...”
“He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.”
“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”
“Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your father?"No. I remember yours.”
“Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart”
“I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...”
“Never bet your money on another man's game.”
“lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!”
“Youre a lady. Its written all over you, but the West doesnt forgive any woman-unless shes got a man.”
“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.”
