Ben Parish Quotes

#1. Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

Jeanette Winterson

#2. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

Brandon Sanderson

#3. We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.

Rick Yancey

#4. Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better."
Um, that would be one percent, Parish.

Rick Yancey

#5. I'm not bitching."
"Yes, you are. You're bitching like a junior miss beauty queen.

Rick Yancey

#6. I know what you're thinking," he says.
"No. You don't."
"You're wondering if you should kiss me good-bye.

Rick Yancey

#7. Ha-ha. The dumb jock who can't talk the Queen's English. I swear to God, the next person who corrects my grammar gets punched in the face.

Rick Yancey

#8. That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear you and they can't see you and can't feel how really bad you feel, but cry for them. A tear for each of them, fill up the fucking ocean, cry.

Rick Yancey

#9. One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.

Rick Yancey

#10. Private Zombie, did your mother have any children that lived?"
"Sir! Yes, sir!"
"I bet when you were born she took one look at you and tried to shove you back in!

Rick Yancey

#11. I steady him, he steadies me, the chain that binds us, the chain that sets us free.
- Ben Parish.

Rick Yancey

#12. I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?

Margaret Thatcher

#13. I give her back an honest-to-goodness smile, the old Ben Parish smile, the one that got me practically everything I wanted. Well, not practically; I'm being modest.

Rick Yancey

#14. Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

John M. McHugh

#15. I just can't resist mutton biryani. It's something I've loved eating as a child too. Whenever I'm feeling low, I just pep myself with some good biryani.

Riteish Deshmukh

#16. And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

Rick Yancey

#17. Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez