Molly Carpenter Quotes

#1. Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

Philip Guston

#2. Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.
I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

Jim Butcher

#3. I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Jim Butcher

#5. Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.

Oscar Wilde

#6. She is not a cookie. Neither is she a biscuit, a PopTart, Sweet TART, apple tart, or any other kind of pastry. She is my apprentice.

Jim Butcher

#7. But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Jim Butcher

#8. Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

Gerry Lindgren

#9. My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

Beverly Cleary

#10. Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute ... We're his flunkies."
"You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky."
"You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly.

Jim Butcher

#11. Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

Jim Butcher

#12. The early Christian historical memory was formed on three land masses -Asia, Africa and Europe. In this respect it does not differ
from textually recorded human history, which formed in the conjunction between these three great spaces. Only three, not seven.

Thomas C. Oden

#13. The words are holloew. But that's okay. Most things are, these days.

Sara Wolf

#14. Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

Leo Burnett

#15. When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

Ted Cruz