Flyscreen Quotes

#1. The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

Markus Zusak

#2. The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.

Markus Zusak

#3. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.

Joshua Becker

#4. We found a book called Alexander, about a boy who confesses all his misdeeds to his father by blaming them on an imaginary red-and-green striped horse. Alexander was a pretty bad horse today. Whatever we can't hold, we hang onto a hook that will hold it.

Leslie Jamison

#5. A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#6. Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?"
"What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. He wore a gray hoodie with the green Jakob's Quest logo across the front. Dear God, I thought. The RG had a Jeff.

Chloe Neill

#8. Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as.
It chose you.

Jacob Nordby

#9. I'm pretty boring.

Abigail Breslin

#10. You don't race cars, you race the rule book

Smokey Yunick

#11. He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

John Keats

#12. Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.

Henry Lee Lucas

#13. Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.

Emil Cioran

#14. Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It's odd I didn't notice earlier, but he doesn't carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly and -

Stephanie Perkins

#15. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt