Unspooled Quotes

#1. Below me, clusters of palm trees were painted green-gold. Tousled by the wind, their fronds resembled tangles of unspooled cassette tape.

Louisa Hall

#2. Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson

#3. The beacon is empty. There is no light. -Eleazar Wentzel (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#4. Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

Virginia Wade

#5. Chinatown is tremendously interesting ... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

S.J. Rozan

#6. To avoid the problems you face is to avoid the life you have to live.

Paulo Coelho

#7. When a person builds his life on the Word of God, he is not afraid of any trial.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Life is a sexually trasmitted disese.

R.D. Laing

#9. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh.

Justin Buzzard

#10. You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

Mireille Enos

#11. Even the most seasoned star tramp can't help but shiver at the spectacular drama of a sunrise seen from space,

Douglas Adams

#12. She opens her eyes slowly. It takes her a moment to adjust to the bright kitchen light, shining in her eyes. "Can we rearrange the furniture this weekend?" she asks sleepily. "So when I sleep out here, you don't shine all of Satan's fiery hell lights in my eyes first thing in the morning?

Lisa McMann

#13. The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Yasmin Mogahed

#14. The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

Lewis Black