Jesse De Silva Quotes

#1. Of course, I didn't know how I felt about my first kiss coming from one of the undead, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, and let me tell you something, Jesse was way cuter than any live guy I'd met lately.

Meg Cabot

#2. How they made
out of shamelessness something
beautiful, for as long as they could.

Carl Phillips

#3. She moved toward Sebastian- Jonathan- and then froze, standing over him, staring down with a look of amazement, mixed with a terrible horror.
"Mother?" Jonathan said.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it.

Damien Echols

#5. The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

Austin Grossman

#6. Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

T. S. Eliot

#7. A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#9. Cementerio El Encinal meant Cemetery of Many Oaks (I'm taking Spanish so that when Jesse and I have kids, I'll understand what he's saying when he yells at them in his mother tongue).

Meg Cabot

#10. He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.

Meg Cabot

#11. For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

William Shakespeare

#12. I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Meghan O'Rourke

#13. Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#14. But it's there. Just because I haven't told anyone doesn't mean it isn't there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can't get out of your head.

Meg Cabot

#15. 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

Benedict Joseph Labre

#16. In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Lewis Black

#17. What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

Jodi Picoult