Lambiase's Quotes

#1. A.J. decides to call Lambiase. He suggests frozen shrimp from Costco, which A.J. now recognizes as Lambiase's default party-throwing suggestion.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. Rob chuckles, I'm not some sparkly-skinned, jealous, child whose sensibilities are still stuck at the turn of the twentieth century. Eve, I can adapt. If we survived the sixties I promise you we can survive learning to share the most important person in either of our long lives.

Angela Louise McGurk

#4. One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

Oswald Chambers

#5. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Elizabeth I

#6. Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

Jane Kirkpatrick

#7. There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. He peered up the ladder. In his young imagination, it must have reached the clouds.

Bruce H. Wilkinson

#9. I hate book parties," A.J. says. "But you run the bookstore," Lambiase says. "It's a problem," A.J. admits.

Gabrielle Zevin

#10. I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

Tom Hardy

#11. In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land,

Miriam Makeba

#12. the feeling of control - whether real or illusory - is one of the wellsprings of mental health.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#13. A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.

Gabrielle Zevin

#14. Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.

Bryant McGill

#15. Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

Robert Anton Wilson