Sloane Morgan Quotes

#1. When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#2. We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Philip Yancey

#3. Sloane got strangely competitive when there were stuffed-animal prizes involved).

Morgan Matson

#4. I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.

Sherman Austin

#5. We ate the same foods, watched the same sports, and practiced the same religion. That's why I felt so much kinship with those people at the courthouse: They were hillbilly transplants in one way or another, just like me.

J.D. Vance

#6. Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Bill Gates

#7. Sloane: But what if it doesn't work out?
Emily: But what if it does?

Morgan Matson

#8. You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish ... " She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.

Morgan Matson

#9. He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.

Jack Trevor Story

#10. I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Joseph Stefano

#11. Stay put," he says. "Don't touch yourself. Don't put your legs together. You'll come when I let you, Nikki, but not before. Break my rules, and I promise you won't like the punishment.

J. Kenner

#12. Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

Scott Westerfeld

#13. I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.

Morgan Matson

#14. Give us being and feeling over having any day.

Mireille Guiliano

#15. monopsony" rather than monopoly), in which case the owner of capital can impose a rate of return greater than the marginal productivity of his capital.

Thomas Piketty

#16. The general rule for refactoring into a new inheritance hierarchy is to arrange code so that you can promote abstractions rather than demote concretions.

Sandi Metz

#17. I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Sammy Cahn

#18. But it always felt like nothing had really happened until I'd talked to Sloane about it.

Morgan Matson

#19. Why?" Why wouldn't he let her go? Why did he make her stay?
She felt the brush of his lips over her hair.
"Because I need you."
"You don't know me."
"I know." His finger under her chin lifted her face. "But I've waited centuries for the chance.

Sarah McCarty

#20. The only way to fully rid yourself of the pain is to go against nature and embrace it

Rachel Van Dyken

#21. We'd also left lots of time unscheduled - the long stretches of hours we'd spend at the beach or walking around or just hanging out with no plan beyond maybe getting fountain Diet Cokes. It was Sloane - you usually didn't need more than that to have the best Wednesday of your life.

Morgan Matson