Eerdmans Press Quotes

#1. What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.

Cesar Aira

#3. Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

Christian De Duve

#4. Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

Andre Dubus III

#5. The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.

Jodi Thomas

#6. I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that she will bind and make me slave
And send me songless to the sullen grave.

Anna Wickham

#7. I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

Shirley Manson

#8. He shrugged. "It's a little too late for that."

"I know, but if you just explained to her, maybe she'd still let you--"

"I already ruined my guitar. I broke it last night. I just...I just don't want to talk about it.

Melissa M. Futrell

#9. I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

Shaun White

#10. In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

Agatha Christie

#11. Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Bob Seger

#12. Zane threw his head back and laughed. Ty pulled him closer. He loved it when Zane got loose and started enjoying himself. Ty

Abigail Roux

#13. God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

A.W. Tozer

#14. There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.

Nile Rodgers