“Sometimes it’s better to say something stupid than nothing at all.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“They sit there in the window of the coffee shop for almost an hour, not talking much, but looking at each other over the tops of their books, flirting somehow even without words. It would be gross if it weren’t adorable.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I'll die of embarrassment."
"At least you'll die knowing.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million."
"How many words are in the English language?"
"Not the point.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“When I think about it, it’s like I would have never been able to grow out of it. It’s like the tree and the bicycle. I grew around it and it became part of me.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“What’s the point of becoming mind-numbingly drunk if it doesn't even give you the balls to talk to the girl you like?”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“If you’re going to talk to this great ass, at least be excited about it.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I don't think age has much to do with writing. I think it's something that can certainly improve in time, but there's no age limit on how old you need to be to write well.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now.
"Don't be scared."
"That doesn't help.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I’m really tired of being embarrassed all the time. And trying and having nothing happen.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“Every time I see her, I’m always surprised. She keeps me on my toes. She smiles when I need her to, even though she could never know that I needed her to. I like the way she looks when she’s thinking. I like the way she looks at me when I’m thinking. She”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“For the record, I’ll still probably be pretty stupid sometimes. I make no promises that you’ll have the positive influence on me that you assume you’ll have.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“He's like a cesspool in the midst of my creative writing oasis.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“He's like a deer; I don't want to make any sudden movements and startle his thoughts away.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I don’t know what you’re saying but I’m sure I love you!”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I look at her suspiciously. ... Nothing is ever short and easy in this class.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“Shh,” Casey says, pulling me back closer. “They’ll need our recollection of this blessed event because they’re both so drunk.” “I’m not that drunk,” Lea says without turning around. “I am,” Gabe says. “For the record.” “So what do you have to say for yourself?” Lea says, stabbing him in the chest again with her finger. “Please stop stabbing me in the chest,” he says.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I sit up straight. She’s talking to me. No one ever talks to me. Oh, how I wish I knew human and could answer her. Instead I nibble on my peanut.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I like squirrels,” she says with a shrug.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“They come in here every once in a while, and she goes to one corner and he goes to the other, and then they move around the store creating parabolas as they come together and bounce apart. They're the weirdest couple on Earth. I want to write math equations about them.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“I think she has a serious school-supply addiction.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“...the people who take their coffee orders far too personally, who have deep-seated emotional issues about how many pumps of mocha they get.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“No one has time for benches in the winter.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“Their trajectory of attraction is like an equation.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
“And I suppose they have friends in other places, and that I'm only seeing a tiny sliver of their lives, but it seems to me if they're moving in the same direction, why not move in the same direction together? I'm not talking about undying love, but I wish they would at least become friends. That wouldn't be too hard.”
― Sandy Hall, quote from A Little Something Different
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“Love did nothing but break down defenses, and I could not afford that.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Heir
“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― John Williams, quote from Stoner
“Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from The Sunne in Splendour
“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
― Graham Greene, quote from The Power and the Glory
“in police work ninety-nine percent of the effort is routine, unspectacular enquiry, checking and double-checking, laboriously building up a web of parts until the parts become a whole, the whole becomes a net, and the net finally encloses the criminal with a case that will not just make headlines but stand up in court. He”
― Frederick Forsyth, quote from The Day of the Jackal
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