“ She designed the cakes and I worked out the recipes. The first year we each created a signature cake. Genie's was called the Goddess: really tall, all white on the outside, wrapped in mountains of coc… Ruth Reichl
“ One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. William Shakespeare
“ One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well—some day, any day, you will not come to live with… Vladimir Nabokov
“ My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. Stephenie Meyer
“ It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Ray Bradbury
“ If you mention Bella's name to me again, Gil, I am likely to do you a mischief!' Sherry warned him. 'I never cared the snap of my fingers for that wretched girl, and if you are not assured of that, as… Georgette Heyer
“ If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable, he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. I’m doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far. I froze. Ilona Andrews
“ I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, wh… Kurt Vonnegut
“ Finally, Cinder gulped. I'm sorry I had to -- She gestured at the unconscious wedding coordinator, then waved her hand like shaking it off. But she'll be fine, I swear. Maybe a little nauseous when sh… Marissa Meyer
“ Contextual awareness represents a continuum of behaviors, which illustrates how and why groups of people unite or divide among cultures. Susan C. Young
“ And then that voice from behind her said her name again.Celaena.They had done this.Her bloody fingers slid down Dorian's face, to his neck. He just stared at her, suddenly still.Celaena, a familiar vo… Sarah J. Maas
“ Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew—Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie—… Kate Atkinson
“ A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.I w… Isaac Asimov
“ I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program. Billy Collins
“ The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. Charles de Secondat
“ The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell
