Vera Brosgol Quotes

#1. Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

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#2. You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

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#3. I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Laurence Olivier

#4. Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot of time without any female contact. He was part of the fellowship of men who went to war, and I think, really, that's what he's writing about.

Richard C. Armitage

#5. Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

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#7. So the owner of a monster head wants to meet on a path named Nut," I said. "That's appropriate.

Lisa Shearin

#8. I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.

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#9. On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!

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#11. Powell to say: " 'I wish I was blacker. I'd like to be as black as you are, Miles.'"(3)

Peter Pullman

#12. I don't think murder is an appropriate reaction to disappointment.

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