Peter Stillman Quotes

#1. Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

Jen Campbell

#2. Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

Hilary Mantel

#3. I missed him. I missed him, I missed him -oh my God, I missed him so much.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am ...

Paul Auster

#5. While blame determines who is at fault for something, responsibility determines who is committed to improving things.

Hal Elrod

#6. Perhaps we project on to starlings that which we deplore in ourselves: our numbers, our aggression, our greed, and our cruelty. Like starlings, we are taking over the world.

Terry Tempest Williams

#7. Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.

Peter Stillman

#8. Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

Peter Stillman

#9. You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female."
"McNab?" Eve said.
"Yes, sir."
"Shut up."
"It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple."
"A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.

J.D. Robb

#10. I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

Mark Valley

#11. I've killed my soul by playing the victim.

Peter Stillman