“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from The Quillan Games
“At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from The Quillan Games
“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. -Bobby Pendragon”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from The Quillan Games
“The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from The Quillan Games
“You see, art makes people think. Blok didn't want people to think. If that happened, they might have realized what was actually happening.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from The Quillan Games
“Bobby spotted the black cat lying on a windowsill, sunning itself. They both walked over to it. Bobby tentatively reached out and rubbed his hands across the cat's belly. The cat purred. "Nice," the cat said dreamily. Bobby whipped his hand back.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from The Quillan Games
D.J. MacHale
Born place: in Greenwick, CT, The United States
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“Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from By Nightfall
“I used to think that happiness, like God, was an idea weaker people were sold on, to manage the grief of a world with so much suffering. It is just easier, I thought, to decide that you are doing something wrong and you just need to buy the right thing, read the right book, find the right guru, or pray more to be happy than to accept that life is a great long heartbreak. Happiness is not what I imagined that mirage to be: an unending ecstasy or state of perpetual excitement. Not a high or a mirage, it is just being okay. My happiness is the absence of fear that there won't be enough -- enough money, enough power, enough security, enough of a cushion of these things to protect me from the everyday heartbreaks of being human. Heartbreak doesn't kill you. It changes you.”
― Melissa Febos, quote from Whip Smart: A Memoir
“Other than when I’m driving, I don’t try to look too far ahead, and once I got out, I never wanted to look back.”
― quote from Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
“I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from A Wolf at the Table
“Years ago when he had been at college, Edward had shown him how to change sheets from under a sleeping man. Harper had spent a few weeks after that stealing the sheets from under his fellow seminary students.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
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