“Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“I don't think murder is an appropriate reaction to disappointment.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“People might think that five-year-olds can't be cruel, but I have some strong evidence to the contrary".”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“But never being wrong is no proof that
the method of testing is sound for all cases”
― Scott Adams, quote from God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from What It is Like to Go to War
“Frankly, if there ever was a time when I was really happy, it wasn't during those first intoxicating moments of my success, but long before that, when I hadn't yet read or shown my manuscript to anyone -- during those long nights of ecstatic hopes and dreams and passionate love of my work, when I had grown attached to my vision, to the characters I had created myself, as though they were my own offspring, as though they really existed -- and I loved, rejoiced and grieved over them, at times even shedding quite genuine tears over my guileless hero.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Insulted and Humiliated
“Ryder - the oldest, Avery continued. He's standing as job boss on this project. Owen's the detail guy, runs the numbers, makes the calls, takes the meetings. Or most of them. Beckett's an architect.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Next Always
“Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It’s because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live.”
― Aidan Chambers, quote from Postcards from No Man's Land
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