Teenage Amnesiac Quotes

#1. When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.

Jeaniene Frost

#3. Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#4. You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. With that, he looked over his shoulder.
Blay's breath shot out of his lungs. "Oh ... my God," he whispered.

J.R. Ward

#6. We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which ... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there.

Jim Butcher

#7. I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

Douglas MacArthur

#8. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.

Brooke Shields

#10. The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Rumi

#11. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

Barack Obama

#12. Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

Gustav Klimt

#13. I always wanted to get fucked by a bad boy."
"Oh, that wasn't fuckin', babe. That was something else.

E.M. Abel

#14. Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.

Herman Melville

#15. Do right. Fear Nothing.

Andrew Klavan

#16. I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman

Gabrielle Zevin

#17. But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Gabrielle Zevin

#18. When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

Josef Albers

#19. Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Pope Francis

#20. Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.

Michael Connelly