Anita Blake Jack In A Box Quotes

#1. I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars.

Jessica Kristie

#2. Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Eva Longoria

#3. We don't normally encourage people to be driven towards something

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

Mark Sheppard

#5. For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

Barack Obama

#6. I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
"The coffin?"
I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires - to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.
- chapter 8

Sinclair Lewis

#8. Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Thomas De Quincey

#9. Does it trouble me to write so insubstantially, with air on air? Well
my words will be as enduring as anything my father wrote, or Shakespeare wrote, or Beethoven wrote, or Darwin wrote. It turns out that they all wrote with air on air.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Fucking cracker," Alvarado hissed as he was shoved into the patrol car.
"Aw, that's discrimination, right there." I feigned hurt. "See, I see you as scumbag first, Alvarado. Or dick-cheese. Scumsucking pedophile. Asshole. The fact that you're Hispanic doesn't even factor into it.

Dani Alexander