Litzinger Mercedes Quotes

#1. If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Jane Smiley

#2. [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Dorothy Parker

#3. At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

Haruki Murakami

#4. It doesn't always make sense, how you go about loving someone. Sometimes loving means gathering them back, sometimes it means sending them away.

Ramona Ausubel

#5. there really is no such thing as 'the future', singular. There are only multiple, unforeseeable futures, which will never lose their capacity to take us by surprise.

Niall Ferguson

#6. Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

Moon Unit Zappa

#9. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own. I

Veronica Roth

#10. In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy daily bread: it was not a curse upon mankind, but the balm which reconciled it to existence.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. We choose not to work when we should be looking for jobs.

J.D. Vance

#12. I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

Estelle