Ficbookreviews Fave Quotes

#1. Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I think I'd rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to." He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. "I'm not strong enough to do that.

Laura Bickle

#3. Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies

#4. I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first.

Laura Bickle

#5. For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy.

Laura Bickle

#6. [W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

Charles Hartshorne

#7. You know, glass is pretty easy to break, Aria. Roar was watching here, his gaze thoughtful.

Veronica Rossi

#8. Have you heard the saying, 'sex sells'? Well, I'm the supplier.

Lyra Parish

#9. It is by metaphor that language grows.

Julian Jaynes

#10. There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

Veronica Rossi

#11. So much easier to give. I detest asking.

Kiana Davenport

#12. Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

Veronica Rossi

#13. I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I didn't either. What have you done with my heart, Leo? Have you taken good care of it? Have you misplaced it?

Jerry Spinelli

#14. Lately, I seem to be all about you.

Susan Ee

#15. No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Harlow Shapley

#16. I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me ... just like everyone else.

Laura Bickle

#17. There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.

Laura Bickle

#18. Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand, Marron said quietly.

Veronica Rossi

#19. A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

Veronica Rossi

#20. The contrast, between the two parties is now so strong that I think senator [Bernie ]Sanders has summed it up himself several times. He has said on her worst day, whatever that means, Hillary Clinton is infinitely better than any Republican.

Joe Conason

#21. How do children do that? Jacob wondered. Not only enter rooms silently, but at the worst possible moment.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Lady Violet