“Wild Ones Tip #23
If a Wild One is screaming, just walk away. Trust me, we’re not dying.”
― quote from Becoming A Vincent
“Wild Ones Tip #361
Wild Ones don’t notice the way people stare. But they will make your life hell if you want to be rude.”
― quote from Becoming A Vincent
“Wild Ones Tip #238
It’s rare we have feelings. Don’t fuck with them when we do.”
― quote from Becoming A Vincent
“First rule of family: brothers don’t hit sisters. They take their beatings, because sisters only beat them when they deserve it.”
― quote from Becoming A Vincent
“Wild Ones Tip #584
To piss off a Wild One, you have to really fuck up. Then learn how to hide.”
― quote from Becoming A Vincent
“If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”
― William Maxwell, quote from So Long, See You Tomorrow
“found Rolly in his office, sitting at his computer, staring at something on the monitor. He pointed at the screen. “They want more testing. Pretty soon, we won’t have any time to teach them anything. We’ll just test them from the moment they get here to the moment they go home.”
― Linwood Barclay, quote from No Time for Goodbye
“If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”
― Saul Bellow, quote from Herzog
“I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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