“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis
Born place: in Toronto, Canada
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“I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job is to convert rather than listen. ... It's not that I don't like her - far from it - I just worry that, without a regular job and the proper linoleum, she'll fall through a crack and disappear to a place where we can't find her.”
― David Sedaris, quote from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
“Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding”
― Jesse Andrews, quote from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“They say, when facing the onslaught of tooth and claw, a creature's heart can simply quit.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Fallout
“I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans, according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me."
--On his move back to America after living in England for twenty years.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from Notes from a Small Island
“Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.”
― Eowyn Ivey, quote from The Snow Child
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The Keeper of Lost C...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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