“Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Trickster, love will be the end of you.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute."
"Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“I didn't do it,' he insisted.
'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.
'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Of course, the Big Bad Wolf does yoga, Sabrina thought. Why did I even bother to ask?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Trickster,” he said, sniffing the boy. “Love will be the end of you.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Wendell turned to the chalkboard and wrote I AM A WORTHLESS FAT-BODY.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“The girl laughed. “I’m Bella,” she said.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and pressed it on the wall. The handprint was bright red.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Once she was out of her clothes and into a warm robe, she headed back downstairs, passing the bathroom door, where she could hear Daphne begging Elvis to get into the tub with her. A tremendous splash told Sabrina that the little girl had gotten her wish.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Hanging upside down above them was a fat, frog-faced creature. Its head and feet were amphibious, with slimy, bumpy skin and a puffed, bulbous pouch under its lower lip, but it had the arms, legs, and body of a human being. It was the creature’s long sticky green tongue”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“LEPRECHAUN GOLD; FLOOR PLANS FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSES; TALKING FISH; GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE; TIK-TOK MEN;”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“opened the cover and saw a crude drawing of a giant kitten chewing on several screaming farmers”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“In most towns, the police do not rely on an old woman, two kids, and a sleepy dog to solve crimes,”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Even Puck, who could usually be counted on to fart during dinner, was oddly quiet.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Factotum
“Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Penultimate Peril
“Amo esta soledad, lejos de los problemas de la vida en común.”
― George R. Stewart, quote from Earth Abides
“I’m a radiant void. I’m convalescing after a long and dreadful illness…I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended […]”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Fool
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