“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, quote from The Hollow Kingdom
“Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!”
― Clare B. Dunkle, quote from The Hollow Kingdom
“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, quote from The Hollow Kingdom
“Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, quote from The Hollow Kingdom
“Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, quote from The Hollow Kingdom
“He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day's agenda, and arriving punctually at their destination, that the land beyond the car had been no more than a wash of one green, and a backdrop of one hill. Life was very different when you walked through it.”
― Rachel Joyce, quote from The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
“We all aspire to be ourselves, an original character in a litany of fiction so vast that we know we cannot.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Well of Lost Plots
“Then I heard someone laugh.
I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Perfect You
“When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, quote from Lunar Park
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