Novelist Quotes

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

Robert Sheckley

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

The way we lay
we mimed a body
of water. It was
this or that way
with
the dead and we
were them.

Nathaniel Mackey

It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work

Christie Ridgway

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

Maria Jane McIntosh

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

A man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska—sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

Of C. P. Snow

Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

Sophie Kinsella

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Patrick O'Brian

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

None but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

Sophie von La Roche

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

Rodman Philbrick

All my life, I knew, all my life I would be haunted by words from Shakespeare.

Sarah Smith (writer)

Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just as he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.

Caroline Stevermer

Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.

Donald Grant Mitchell

Kate and Mercer gave each other a smile with a future in it.

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

Shirley Jackson

The implications of self-definition, self-celebration, and perhaps not a little self-inflation and self-designation are nevertheless quite as obvious in each as for all.

Albert Murray (writer)