Penguin Classics Quotes

#1. I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

Doug Benson

#2. Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

James Joyce

#3. We'd never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

Katherine McIntyre

#4. Because what you read matters.

Penguin Classics

#5. The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

Chris Crutcher

#6. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. "Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl," Mom liked to say. "Or I might wonder." Dad

Harlan Coben

#7. I'm too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming.

Coco J. Ginger

#8. You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful ...

Sappho

#9. When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Linda Grant

#10. One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

Delano Johnson

#11. She always said you can't help people with magic, but you can help them with skin. By doin' real things, she meant.

Terry Pratchett