“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
My inner goddess is jumping up and down, clapping her hands like a five year old.
From Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James.
What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?
From The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan.
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
From Watchmen by Alan Moore.
I’m getting this really weird feeling like, I’m so involved in all this hysterical noise, which is supposedly my life but it doesn’t add up to anything, if you step back far enough it’s just a dumb buzz like a swarm of mosquitoes. But everybody’s life is like that, right?
From Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
He has a great smile, a cat’s smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.
From Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it… fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf—your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in flight from the real reality. That is a basic definition of Homo sapiens.
From The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles.
But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
From South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami.
She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be “special,” craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it “loneliness that crowds couldn’t cure.”
From A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown.
The man’s a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would’ve been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.
From Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
A herald’s voice rang out. “All hail His Grace, Joffrey of the Houses Baratheon and Lannister, the First of his Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, and Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.”
From A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
From We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
