Marika Quotes

#1. Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.

Jon Gruden

#2. Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

Mitch McConnell

#3. He was my age and in my imagination he was a fireman, not the kind that actually fights fires but the kind who travels the country shirtless posing for calendars.

Marika Christian

#4. Ringer, I don't want to burst your bubble, but - "
"You don't want to burst my bubble butt?"
"That sounded suspiciously like a joke.

Rick Yancey

#5. Sometimes I had difficulty remembering that "all you can eat" is not a personal challenge.

Marika Christian

#6. I know what you're thinking," he says.
"No. You don't."
"You're wondering if you should kiss me good-bye.

Rick Yancey

#7. In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

Rick Yancey

#8. Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA

Mirella Muffarotto

#9. each week, before they dealt the cards, my father presented his typed report on himself and my mother to Marika, who copied it in her hand, then burned the original.

Kati Marton

#10. Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves.

Marika McCoola

#11. One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.

Rick Yancey

#12. Do you know what happened to Teacup?"
"Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.

Rick Yancey

#13. Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

Marika McCoola

#14. Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

Robert Fritz

#15. Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#16. There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say.

Rick Yancey

#17. That is the great luxury of long-existing and accepted segregation in New York and almost every other major city of our nation nowadays. Nothing needs to be imposed on anyone. The evil is already set in stone. We just move in.

Jonathan Kozol

#18. I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ...

William Butler Yeats