Collapse Series Quotes

#1. He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.

Edith Pearlman

#2. Nico's hair was combed straight up, stiff with mousse, the tips dyed the color of traffic cones.

Frederick Weisel

#3. What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#4. But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

John Buchan

#5. I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

Sheridan Smith

#6. There isn't a Zen zone on this side of the planet that could calm me down.

Summer Lane

#7. From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer for Breaking Dawn.

Wendy McClure

#8. I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketched out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before.

Julia Bell

#9. She's got the kind of exotic beauty I always dreamed about. But really, who cares about stuff like that anymore? Being pretty isn't going to keep my butt out of Omega's crosshairs.

Summer Lane

#10. Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.
- Frankenstein p115

Mary Shelley

#11. Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.

Jurgen Moltmann

#12. The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

Lisa See

#13. This is what happens when you don't carefully delineate the rules of the game.

Yuu Kamiya

#14. And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?

J.M. Coetzee

#15. Things used to be easy. Flip a switch? On goes the light. Press a button? You're calling your parents. Swipe a credit card? You just paid for lunch. Easy, simple, convenient. Nothing is like that anymore

Summer Lane

#16. Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

David Hare

#17. You'd get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You'd resist the temptation to dabble. You'd make more good decisions and you'd make more big decisions.

Warren Buffett

#18. Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

Demetri Martin

#19. People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Sarah Addison Allen