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Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.
A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.
Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.
People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.
Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.
Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.
Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.
Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!
Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.
Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.
Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.
It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.
Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.
The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett
She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.
We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.
Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.