Zurcher Geschnetzeltes Quotes

#1. I like things to be story-shaped.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.

Ted Nicholas

#3. We can't have sex all night," Tyson mumbled to himself. You can fucking die trying.

Richard Raley

#4. Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch.

Fredrik Backman

#5. Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.

Annie Proulx

#6. The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

George Jean Nathan

#7. I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.
[Eugene V. Debs, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest]

Eugene V. Debs

#8. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn