My Favorite Book Essay Quotes

#1. I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

D.A. Botta

#2. I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

Henry Rollins

#3. I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly been abandoned by his mother.

Alice Miller

#4. When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

George Eliot

#5. What do I want?" His fingers brushed over loose strands of hair near my temple. "I want to call you every five minutes. I want to text you good night every night. I want to make you laugh. And I want you to look at me like you did that first night on the bus.

Jenn Bennett

#6. Leave us do the thinking sweetheart. It takes equipment.

Raymond Chandler

#7. When you're different you've got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

Niall Williams

#8. The less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

Jessica Livingston

#9. As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Jonathan Lethem

#10. Where was the excitement it dependability? Where was the spontaneity in a predictable world? He could offer her an eternity of challenges and passion, of quiet, tender moments stolen in the depths of riotous flames and ravaging storms - tranquillity amidst the chaos.

A.G. Howard