“ On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home. Bill Watterson
“ O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how o… Harriet Beecher Stowe
“ Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children! V.C. Andrews
“ Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly in the autumn of 1981. The essay o… Christopher Hitchens
“ It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will never feel out of place again, I say, already wary of the incredible lie I a… Joe Meno
“ It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of s… Ernest Cline
“ Is it true? he said. They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment. So it's you, is it?Yes, said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of were thickset and looked l… J.K. Rowling
“ In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more incli… Barry Glassner
“ I traveled from city to city in those days, and the view from within the ghettos was terrible and terrifying. While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would… John Howard Griffin
“ I had no idea what time it was, but I felt boneless and it would take an act of God to get me out of this bed. Or chocolate. Jennifer L. Armentrout
“ However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform ev… Richard Bauckham
“ How about your plan?Nothing. Useless. And now we have started on the others I seem to have less time to concentrate on my own.Why don't I seduce him?Not a bad idea, but you'd have to be pretty special… Jeffrey Archer
“ His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea. Mary Balogh
“ Hey, baby, how would you like a partner in crime-Back off, Blay barked. He's with me.Abruptly Qhuinn's spine straightened: It was amply clear from the cold blue fire spitting out of Blay's eyes that t… J.R.Ward
“ He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish. Cornelia Funke
