Page 23 Quotes

#1. I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.

George Saunders

#2. Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

Richelle Mead

#3. Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn't miss a word.

Heather Davis

#4. What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

Paulo Freire

#5. He once again pointed to that creepy theatrical smile. There were way too many teeth there. It made him look positively demented.

Richard E. Gropp

#6. How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

Elizabeth Smart

#7. Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.

Veronica Roth

#8. Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.

Gayle Forman

#9. Others see depressed people as weak, and all I want to tell them is they can never imagine the amount of strength it takes for us to do something as simple as getting out of bed in the mornings.

Kathryn Perez

#10. The pictures were beautiful both because of the way they looked while they existed and because they could never last.

Ally Condie

#11. Any apparent somewhere which you may inhabit is always at the mercy of a ruthless and omnivorous everywhere.

E. E. Cummings

#12. Detention turned out to be code for slavery.

Jus Accardo

#13. The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters
Mr. A, Eating an Apple; Mrs. B, Buying a Broom; and so on
and something insipid about the parade of grinning letters defeated Dylan's will utterly.

Jonathan Lethem

#14. Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

Sigmund Jahn

#15. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

Lisa Jewell

#16. Wake up, Brightheart. It's time to go." Brightheart blinked up at him with her good eye, then rose and stretched. "Okay, Firestar. I'm ready.

Erin Hunter

#17. When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark with her gray shirt on, she looked like a piece of luggage that had been left in the wrong place.

Haruki Murakami

#18. I think everyone is strong and weak in different ways.

Cassandra Clare

#19. A man hurts your woman, you take yours from that man. You never take it from your woman.

Kristen Ashley

#20. Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.

J.K. Rowling

#21. I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Laurence Fishburne

#22. The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

Alan Keyes