Uninfected Cut Quotes

#1. My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.

Marilynne Robinson

#2. Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

David Levithan

#4. I intend to die with a bottle of champagne by my bed. I'll drink a toast to the fact that, despite everything, I was able to experience the singular adventure of being born, living and one day disappearing into the darkness once again.

Henning Mankell

#5. I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.

Ryan Hall

#6. What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

Salma Hayek

#7. I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#8. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

Susan Block

#9. Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody - about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.

T.R. Reid

#10. Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

Garth Nix

#11. Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Dean Koontz

#12. The vast majority of chatter surrounding parenthood is junk. All of these seemingly divisive decisions - like pain meds in labor, newborn sleep arrangements, and scheduling - are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides. Screw that. Take care of your kid. Do what works.

J.J. Keith

#13. The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sarah Zettel

#15. I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

Andy Summers