The Red Umbrella Book Quotes

#1. I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Matt Skiba

#2. If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache ... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Anton Chekhov

#3. Not slaves," said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. "Citizens, employed by government. They have same rights as other citizens - free speech, freedom of worship, the right to vote. Before the war, they worked in the Ilium Works, controlling machines, but now machines control themselves much better.

Anonymous

#4. I want to bite this lip, he murmurs against my mouth, and carefully he tugs at it with his teeth.

E.L. James

#5. I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

#6. You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

Juliana Hatfield

#7. I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Sidney Sheldon

#8. Was it better to get as much out of a moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Did the actual experience outweigh the inevitable conclusion? I guess I had to decide if the conclusion was a broken heart, or a broken bone, in order to weigh the risk.

Rebecca Donovan