Julia Hoban Quotes

#1. I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

Walter F. Mondale

#2. If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life

Julia Hoban

#3. If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly

Julia Hoban

#4. Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.

Julia Hoban

#5. Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Jasper Fforde

#6. A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.

Marjorie Garber

#7. It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.

Julia Hoban

#8. I need a Kleenex." She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
sweatshirt, and wipes her nose with it.
"That's romantic," she says, embarrassed.
"Well, it is sort of, because I wouldn't do it for anybody else
in the world.

Julia Hoban

#9. Our eyes met and the soul-light danced between. "Well.." he said, "how about coffee?

Rachel Heffington

#10. oh brave new world that has such a person in it.

Julia Hoban

#11. You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good.

Julia Hoban

#12. Isn't that interesting."
"Hmmmm?"
"When you blush, it doesn't stop at your collarbone.

Julia Hoban

#13. And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.

Julia Hoban

#14. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...

Julia Hoban

#15. The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

Cullen Murphy

#16. We are all broken shards of glass, rejected building stones, being fitted into a temple we cannot fully even imagine.

Russell D. Moore

#17. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

John Galt

#18. The silence of a place where there were once horses
is a mountain
and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain
once fell from the air
ringing
like the chime of an iron shoe ...

W.S. Merwin

#19. You are not alone ... please know that hope can fly in on the most unexpected of wings.

Tracy Shawn

#20. I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror ... I think some lover wanted his beloved to see how she appeared to him. He wanted her to be able to see herself the way that he did.

Julia Hoban

#21. I read somewhere that every life is the story of a single mistake, and then what happens after.

Andrew Gross

#22. If she let herself, she'd drown in a world of pain

Julia Hoban

#23. I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you

Julia Hoban

#24. Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

Ramez Naam

#25. If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

J.M. Coetzee

#26. She watches as the blood springs from the cut she's making, but it doesn't change anything. Not this time. She swipes again, deeper. Now she feels pain, but will it be enough?

Julia Hoban

#27. Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

Todd William

#28. Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot.

Cass Sunstein

#29. And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of grief, and she doesn't know if she can handle it, because it really hurts, hurts her more than the razor ever could.

Julia Hoban

#30. Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.

Yasmin Mogahed

#31. If someone were to look carefully, the angry red marks underneath the fine cotton of her blouse would be clearly visible. But nobody ever does look carefully.

Julia Hoban

#32. If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.

Julia Hoban

#33. Her brother is crying, he is wretched and broken. Though his sobs are barely audible, he is weeping with absolute and total abandon. Such a naked display of emotion is both alarming and frightening.

Julia Hoban