“ It’s an inconvenience, true enough, and I don’t like it at all, but I know that you do it for everyone, Mister Death. Is there any other way?’NO, THERE ISN’T, I’M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WI… Terry Pratchett
“ It was as if the curtains came down on all this, if not entirely obliterated it, when the monsoon rose up in the thunderous clouds from the parched valley below to engulf the hills, invade them with t… Anita Desai
“ It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth! Cornel West
“ In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . Stephen King
“ I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. What’s the tenth thing? I… Lisa Kleypas
“ I would try being friends with her, but she's too busy being a smartass.Now you know how the rest of us feel, Jim said. Ilona Andrews
“ I see for you.You see for me.We see for each other.I hear for you.You hear for me.We hear for each other.I think for you.You think for me.We think for each other.I speak for you.You speak for me.We sp… Matshona Dhliwayo
“ I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight… Bernard Cornwell
“ I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs. Rebecca McNutt
“ I jerked my hand back and looked up, horrified. The ground feels like skin! A slow smile crept onto Hades’ face. Zeus got bored with the whole rock and eagle bit.Rock and eagle bit...? Then it hit me.… Jennifer L. Armentrout
“ I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly p… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ I PUT ON a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown-up, big-girl clothes never quite fitting. I’m barely five foot—four foot, ten inches in truth, but I round up. Sue me. I’m thirty-… Gillian Flynn
“ Honestly,’ she said when they were out of Bruce’s earshot, ‘he’s as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant’s night off, anyway?’ Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. '… Francine Pascal
“ He showed me how each wheel was stamped with the month and year, and then he cracked the first one open to reveal its pale cream-colored interior. He chipped off a hefty shard and handed it to me. I t… Ruth Reichl
“ Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más. Isabel Allende
“ Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herse… Simone de Beauvoir
“ Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart… John Green
“ Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may ind… Robert D. Richardson
“ Children can be told anything—anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be conce… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
