Arietta Adams Quotes

#1. It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Alain De Botton

#2. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Gautama Buddha

#3. The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

John Updike

#4. You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

P.C. Cast

#5. If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.
But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Colin Bateman

#6. Oh God Angel," he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~

Lucian Bane

#7. Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

Francois Guizot

#8. So nearly everyone had an opinion. Polls showed that most supported the Russell program, an informal name for Sax's plans to terraform the planet by all means possible, as fast as they could.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. The sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

Daniel Ek

#11. Eve had wet cheeks when she finally answered a completely unaware Beckett. "It was amazing. It was everything I'll never have." She leaned down and pressed her lips to his hair. "Loving you is more of a curse than anything else.

Debra Anastasia

#12. What tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and his sweet and charming Christine! ... What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again? ...

Gaston Leroux

#13. During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.

Stephen W. Thompson

#15. He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said,
"Let me take a look at him. Shane?"
"I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.

Rachel Caine