410 quotes found
“Life is volatile.”
“She had very much looked forward to a word in private with him. But she forgot, as she usually did, the silence that always came between them in these latter years, whenever they found themselves a...”
“I reckon its true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.”
“The wiry man scratched his head, looked the two inquisitors up and down and cleared his throat softly. We must be quick. He turned to go, pulling his cloak over his head and shuffling through the d...”
“If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noahs flood.”
“LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.”
“It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.”
“War is a terrible, bloody thing.”
“A glance would not be enough to tell you this was the daughter of Katherine Raquel Demure. Even a lingering gaze would not suffice. No. Only careful study of the original and a comparative inspecti...”
“I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.”
“Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.”
“He spent the next hours watching her sleep, taking in every detail of her face, of her body. The way the soft glow of the bedside lamp cast shadows on her cheeks. The way her chest rose and fell wi...”
“When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It's the only way to stay sane in insanity.”
“ANTONIO PONTNS TRIAL made front page headlines across major newspapers. On April 17, 1915, the Schenectady Gazette headline read, Trial of Ponton on the Charge of Committing one of Most Startling M...”
“Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.”
“Sir, you do understand that - officially - I'm not actually a centurion. I haven't even been assigned to a legion yet.' The general continued writing as he spoke. 'What was the name?' 'Corbulo, sir...”
“A brief whiff of her mother had come through a cracked window that opened to a weed-infested courtyard. It was a fragrance that almost spoke to her, saying, 'Yes, it was an unjust end to the life o...”
“Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the movies, she'd always lived on the edge. She'd been paid to leap from a sixteenth ...”
“Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.”
“Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach out and touch us for just a moment in time one second-glance to warm ou...”
