Book Snippets Quotes

#1. I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

Melissa Etheridge

#2. Young love is strong. First love is powerful. But what you don't know when you're young - what you can't know - is how long life actually is. And the only dependable thing about it, besides death and taxes, is change.

Emma Chase

#3. I write to understand what I know.

Kamand Kojouri

#4. She's a big girl, Syd, and Deke is not an ogre. He doesn't eat little pixies for breakfast and pick his teeth with their bones.

Jenny Lyn

#5. With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.

Christina Baker Kline

#6. We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#7. You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

Paula Radcliffe

#8. Manipulation is the art of making another person's spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.

Caroline Myss

#9. Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

#10. In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.

Erik Valeur

#11. I thought you said she couldn't touch anyone." James is staring at me now, suspicious.
"She can't."
"Except for you?"
"Right. Except for me."
And Warner.
"She can't touch anyone except for you."
And Warner.
"Right."
"That seems awfully convenient." James narrows his eyes.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.

Attica Locke

#13. The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

Samuel Beckett

#14. Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Arundhati Roy