Abruption Quotes

#1. ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were concatenated without abruption.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Alone in my bedroom, I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd truly laughed.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

Mark Pryor

#4. The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Susan Cheever

#5. There's no such thing as fiction or imagination, as they're merely non-fiction manifestations in the wrong parallel universe.

Daniel Marques

#6. Their lives had been an interminable loop of repeated gestures; now their existences were winnowed to this discrete and eternal moment.

Colson Whitehead

#7. All that money and still unable to count the blessings of her life, beginning with freedom from the paycheck.

Stephen King

#8. Poison is like the drowned; it always floats.

Toni Morrison

#9. The gentleness of your action touched my heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not ... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

Richard Foreman

#11. You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Jennie Finch

#12. couldn't just tell her to go to hell and get out of my life. If I did, I felt like I would have no one, and I seemed to continue the hopeless path of trying to please her, make her see my caring for her, get her to acknowledge me or what?

Massimilla Harris