“He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.” DoeStruggleMagicComputerOkayPhones Author:Patricia Briggs
“Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.” DogLet MeGoing AwayMaxAnother DayMaximum Ride Author:James Patterson
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.” ChildrenOrderGraceSorrowDespairDepressionSuicideErrorsDepthVicesStupidityDisillusionmentNausea Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.” HandsMovingRealizingChangedKissingEarsI RealizedThunderKissing Him Author:James A. Baldwin
“Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts” IfsHumansFacesHateRaceWatchesGreaterBearsI HateDestroyedIndifferenceHuman RaceSpectatorsIcebergUnbreakable Author:Peter Weiss
“She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.” PeopleIfsLittlesStillsMotherGirlHoursForgetGoneFeetQuietSittingRememberedPretendingScreamChild AbuseStools Author:Eloisa James
“At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.” IfsKindIdeasSelfWholeFactsHomeSeemsWould BeRealizingRelationshipSpecialCommitmentCommittedReverseNursingArrangingNursing HomeNo Commitment Author:John D. MacDonald
“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)” HeartSometimesFactsHappensPainLeftBloodWorstWalkingRiversVictimOrgansShellsSurvivedWorst ThingsShockedMysticStumblingImperviousWalking Dead Author:Dennis Lehane
“I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.” One DayPicksStandingShoesShelvesPolishPick Me Book:Live for a Living Source: Live for a Living