178 quotes found
“If you tell a person about paradise,It becomes a dream.If you show a person paradise,It becomes a goal!”
“We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.”
“I was also one of those people who hadnt caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in...”
“They werent like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”
“If doesn't kill you outright, it just puts you into intensive care for months.”
“Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.”
“If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you dont see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you...”
“eat whatever you meet along the way.If you come late don't eat but wack yours with hers.”
“Accursed be he that first invented war.”
“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.”
“God's codpiece, you're very kind”
“I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.”
“Wed been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool sto...”
“Oh, do you, Milo? Youre so selfish. You dont see the bigger picture. Whats the bigger picture? Youre still here looking for handouts. Whos going to take care of me? Im on my knees here, Mom. Not fo...”
“Yes, said Cooley. That is the question, as the Bard might say. The Bard? Whats so funny? said Cooley. Nothing, sir, I said. I just didnt know people still used that term. Well, Im a people, Burke. ...”
“Fuck, said Bernie. Fuckwinky eyeballhead. No, Bernie. We dont use those words. Which words? You know which words. You used them, Daddy. I made a mistake. I am sorry I said that word. It isnt helpin...”
“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the name shufflers, done my duty. I thought about that moment later on. Mayb...”
“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.”
“You said you were having a dream. Its true, I did. Was it the one where youre inside the girl and you are pumping her and pumping her and you are so happy but then it turns out its not a girl, its ...”
“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.”
