Aciman Call Quotes

#1. The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

James Anthony Froude

#2. One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

R. H. Tawney

#3. Nico glanced back at Coach Hedge. The satyr just made a shooing gesture like, Go. Do your Underworld thing.

Rick Riordan

#4. Twenty years ago. First, when you take a static picture of society, people

Ben Goldacre

#5. You're living up in Heaven, but I know you're mad as Hell.

MF Grimm

#6. My friend Josh grew up in New York City in the '80s and led an extraordinarily active social life and likes to point out how extraordinary social lives were possible long before people started carrying around phones. You simply made a plan and kept it.

Jason Gay

#7. If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

Charles Adams

#8. Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life ... If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Teresa Of Avila

#9. It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. Love is overrated. All it brings is emptiness." I twirled the ring again. "Definitely not beauty.

Scarlett Dawn

#11. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

Andre Aciman

#12. The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Vera Kistiakowsky

#13. Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Andre Aciman

#14. With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Anna Torv

#15. Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.

Adam Phillips

#16. The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.

Ashwin Sanghi

#17. It didn't matter the quality of the writing - Callie's fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

Sarah MacLean

#18. And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.

Andre Aciman