“Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it’s in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“It’s not the flying that’s the hard part; it’s the landing.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I know you have a past, but personally, I’m vested in our future.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I’d clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“asked Thomas; it’s just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“look at him. But I can’t. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“couloir étroit en l’aidant à contourner les obstacles, à savoir les camés en”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“chore. You didn’t like me doing”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“Because what is love if not an exercise in faith.
Because what is love if not perseverance.
Because what is love if not forgiveness.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“The rest of the year, I wondered if the point of Christmas was just spending money and getting fat and opening gifts. Indulging.
But when Christmas finally comes, and that warm, tingly, mints-and-sweaters-and-fireplace-fires feeling gathers in the bottom of your stomach, and you're lying on the floor with all the lights off but the ones on the Christmas tree, and listening to the silence of the snow falling outside, you see the point. For that one instance in time, everything is good in the world. It doesn't matter if everything isn't actually good. It's the one time of the year when pretending is enough.”
― Francesca Zappia, quote from Made You Up
“Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.”
― Ian Caldwell, quote from The Rule of Four
“Steve didn’t like the stairs. It bothered him that they hung in midair, unsupported. Steve said this “weirded him out."
This wasn’t surprising. The list of things that Steve found objectionable was long and growing. It included the Library itself (“How can the furniture hang on the ceiling like that? It’s creepy.”); the jade floor (“Jade isn’t supposed to glow.”); the apothecary (“What the hell is that thing? I’m out of here.”); the armory (David’s trophies made him throw up); the Pelapi language (“It sounds like cats fighting”); her robes (“Did you borrow those from Death?” She hadn’t.); and, of course, Carolyn herself.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Chess and you taking a picture of me reading Slaughterhouse-Five, telling me I’d need proof someday because nobody in Creek View would ever believe I had actually read a goddamn book, let alone five. Talking about God and why there’s evil in the world and bitching because the Steelers won the Super Bowl. Camp Leatherneck, me not missing home at all and you missing it like crazy, always talking about going to college and how when you had leave you were gonna marry Hannah. And you wanted kids, and I said I didn’t because people like me, we just end up disappointing one another and I’d probably be like my dad, and you told me I had to get over it, get over my dad and my mom and how screwed up everything is because you said, Josh, you’re gonna have it all. I know it. You’re gonna have it all. And for the first time, I’m almost believing that.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
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