“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“I'd be a monster fighter who rode the bus. It didn't get any more bad-ass than that.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“To my amusement, a traffic sign prohibited ox carts from passing by revolutionary sites, out of fear that the oxen would defecate close to these venerated monuments. These strong, resilient, and patient animals weren’t merely shuffling goods along roads, but because of the limited mechanization and shortage of fuel they also plowed rice paddy fields. I got the impression that, unlike in China and Vietnam where every year is the year of a different animal, in North Korea every year was the Year of the Oxen.”
― Felix Abt, quote from A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom
“Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity”
― Jeanne DuPrau, quote from The Diamond of Darkhold
“Injustice always captures the attention of the young,’ she said. ‘But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can’t fix until we no longer see injustice at all.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from Voice of the Gods
“You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Waiting For You
“She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, quote from It Had to Be You
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