Tragic Backstory Quotes

#1. What would we do together?" Cath asked. "He'd want to go to the bar,and I'd want to stay home and write fanfiction.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

John McEnroe

#3. In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#4. I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

Anita Roddick

#5. If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Mordecai Richler

#6. Lexi looked him up and down and laughed. I'll fight every one of you. I'll make it my goal to slice off every Dark Fae dick. I'll make sure that you can't harm another human again

Donna Grant

#7. We do not choose whom we love...We can only choose how well.

Martha Brockenbrough

#8. The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

Michael Emerson

#10. Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?

Ramona Ausubel

#11. As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill.

Elle A. Rose

#12. There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

#13. Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don't they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams

Shawn L. Bird

#14. The prospect of going home is very appealing.

David Ginola

#15. The question of what is deserved should rarely, if ever, be asked. Asking it leads to deadly judgement, and acts of unmitigated evil. Atrocity revisited in the name of justice breeds its own atrocity.

Steven Erikson

#16. I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

Chuck D