Teen Sci Fi Romance Quotes

#1. He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

Holly Black

#2. It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Jacques Barzun

#3. But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars.

Siobhan Davis

#4. As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.

James Howard Kunstler

#5. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Pierre Dukan

#7. Getting a full-body buzz with a guy I'd just met was as weird as seeing dead people. But much more enjoyable.

Myra McEntire

#8. Cultivate the art of renunciation.

Thomas Hardy

#9. I couldn't shake the feeling that you had taken something of mine. Something you had no right to. It's lingered over the years, that all-consuming feeling. And I feel it now. What are you hiding, Axton? What do you have that's mine?"

Siobhan Davis

#10. She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

Kevin Brockmeier

#11. From DW:
I got it. "Here's the thing," I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.

Tamara Rose Blodgett