Jordanova Quotes

#1. He produced a handkerchief - crisply folded - and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She'd never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Where you trying to go, huh? Come on me, Macy. Come on me, or I'll take you outside and make you scream right there on the front lawn for the whole fuckin' neighborhood to hear.

Cherrie Lynn

#3. Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#4. I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

Peta Wilson

#5. Every story begins with a tremble of anticipation. At the start we may have an idea of our point of arrival, but what lies before us and makes us shudder is the journey, for that is all discovery.

M.J. Rose

#6. The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say and felt you didn't belong anywhere, books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

Dean Koontz

#7. Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#9. Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

Herman Kahn

#10. The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.

Edan Lepucki