“ No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure h… Marcel Proust
“ Look, he isn’t even concerned.I poured the tea. He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.I can jog around the room pretending t… Ilona Andrews
“ Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.We can use this. We can use… Steven Pressfield
“ I’ve never run this far before, he said at one point. Or this fast for so long. It’s better than sticking your head out a car window, that’s for sure.My theory is that Oberon might be a master of Tao.… Kevin Hearne
“ If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems… Sarah Vowell
“ I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. Dan Brown
“ I stabbed him, Lizzy said bluntly. That's how he got that scar. Why? I'm sorry. That's personal. I shouldn't ask that. She blushed. It's okay. Lizzy laid a hand on the woman's arm. I was mad at a woma… Carolyn Brown
“ I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good… Natalie Goldberg
“ I look back on my life the way one watches a badly scripted action flick, sitting at the edge of the seat, bursting out, No, no, don't open that door! The bad guy is in there and he'll grab you and pu… Marya Hornbacher
“ I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them. Shirley Rousseau Murphy
“ I guess you've got a spice of temper, commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. It goes with hair like yours, I reckon L.M. Montgomery
“ I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spie… Holly Black
“ I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. J.D. Salinger
“ He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of lar… Terry Pratchett
“ He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles up… Neal Stephenson
“ At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. - Mary Doria Russell
“ Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our parting. It may be a very long time before we see… Jon Krakauer
“ After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when the… Umberto Eco
