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Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in this business for all of my life, and I know the difference between people who pretend to like you to get ahead, and people who are actually interested in getting to know you. Patrick wants to get to know you. Preferably naked, but that’s up to you.” “I can’t wait until you’re old enough to be senile and start saying these things in public.” “I’m very lucky to have such a loving son.
— Matthew Haldeman-Time, Off the Record
Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
You want me to invite him to dinner.” “I want you to invite him to dinner,” she agreed. “You know,” he said, “most gay men don’t have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives.” “That’s probably true,” she said. “You’re one of the lucky ones.
— Matthew Haldeman-Time, Off the Record
How do you feel about going on a date with me? I'm abroad for another two weeks; you've got plenty of time to prepare yourself. It will be the best night of your life, of course.
— Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time
Well then that's our date confirmed. I am excited! Most girls want to know if I have long term plans to start a family; you want to know if I like 80s rap. I think I'm in love with you. Actually, I'm not you have a foul mouth and terrible taste in men by all accounts.
— Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time
I am back in London in a couple of days and looking forward to Sunday. Here is what we are doing. 1. Going to see my favourite mad transgender folk singer at the Roundhouse. 2. Then I am going to feed you tapas in a little place by Mornington Crescent. 3. Then we will go home in opposite directions and I will stare at my silent phone for weeks, wondering what happened. Or we will go for a dirty hump on Primrose Hill. Or maybe we will just have an awkward kiss/hug loaded with the promise of more next time.  
— Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit
— David Giannini
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
I am a master of foolhardy plans.
— Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief
We both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or something.
— Stacy Kramer, From What I Remember...
I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
— Janette Rallison, Just One Wish
Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.
— Demetri Martin
The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.
— Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand
Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
— Christopher Hitchens
You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.
— Alex Potvin
You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
— Rex Beach, The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
— Jim Butcher, Storm Front
What the hell makes you smart?" I asked."I wouldn't go for coffee with you.""Listen - I wouldn't ask you.""That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.
— Erich Segal, Love Story
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
— Oscar Wilde
I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.
— George W. Bush
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
— L.M. Montgomery
Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under your kilt," the man's voice said with an elegant aplomb. "Where would you like your guest's things, sir?
— Tiffany Reisz, The Angel
I wasn't used to guys making me blush, and I wasn't sure why he even was making me blush.
— Holly Hood, Ink
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)
— Tim Dorsey, Hurricane Punch
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.
— W. Ian Thomas
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.
— Lynn Messina
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
— Steve Kluger
I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.
— Brian Celio
I'm an angel. The horns are only there to hold up the halo.
— Suzanne Wrightt
He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
— James  Jones, From Here to Eternity
I'll be sure not to let anyone but you carry me in her arms." He turns and leaves the kitchen before I can figure out what to make of his comment. A sense of humor is one more thing I don't think angels should have. The fact that his sense of humor is corny makes it even more wrong.
— Susan Ee, Angelfall
Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.
— Lynn Messina
And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Careful Use of Compliments
He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
— Philip Kerr, The One from the Other
Why Fight When You Can Negotiate?
— Captain Jack Sparrow
Good,’ he said. ‘Cause Maggie’s all the nightmare I can take.’I smiled. ‘Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me.’He gave me a one-fingered salute.
— Jessica Shirvington, Disruption
Now it's my turn to give you advice." The tightened his grip, eliminating any doubt about whether he was as ready for this as she was. "Any time you're talking about having hot, dirty sex that makes you come so hard your whole world turns neon, the last thing you want to bring into the conversation is the word 'little'".
— Avery Flynn, The Negotiator
You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?""I suppose.""AR-15?""Ugh. AR-15? I'd rather not have my gun break down on me every second week." Besides, every wannabe and their dog had an M16 or M4 variant these days."G7.""Not accurate enough.""FAL?""A 7.62? Maybe," I said. "Though I hate the triggers.""As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled."Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
Ranta: Let's just pray that she actually is a tsundere... Though, if she were a tsundere, obviously, the one she'd go dere for is me, you know? That's kind of... not so bad, I guess?Moguzo: O-Obviously, she wouldn't go dere for Ranta, I think...Ranta: Oh, shut up, Moguzo!
— Ao Jyumonji, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 1
The movie that changed my life,' he liked to say, by which he meant that it had changed his wardrobe.
— E. L. Neve
PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.
— Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology
How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
... sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.
— Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg
If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.
— Tom Holt, In Your Dreams
Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.
— Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.
— Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat
I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.
— Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn't solve anything.
— Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
My libido was like a Golden Retriever puppy, ready to jump all over him and lick his face.Down, girl.
— Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet
Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.
— Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design
Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.
— Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl
One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.
— J.A. George, Gifted
Your--ah--intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months.
— David Eddings, Castle of Wizardry
It's not so bad."Melancholia looked at her. "You're lying.""I'll get used to it. So will you.""I... I don't think I'll be able to.""I'll be there to help when you need it.""But I hate you."Valkyrie smiled. "No you don't.""No, I do. I want to kill you and stuff.""We actually became friends in those caves.""That's not what happened, " said Melancholia."We're pals. We're buddies.” "If my wrists weren't in shackles, my hands would be round your throat.""You want to hug my throat because we're friends.
— Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light
Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
I am Detective Inspector Me. This is my partner, Detective Her."The traffic warden frowned. "Her?""Me," said Stephanie."Him?""Not me," said Skulduggery. "Her.""Me," said Stephanie."You?" said the traffic warden."Yes," said Stephanie. "I'm sorry, who are you?"Stephanie looked at him. "I'm Her, he's Me. Got it?
— Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light
Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense."There is a vegetable-plant hybrid we've been working on, modifying the genes and receptors, mutating the proteins and acids so that they are, in effect, neurotransmitters. Our work on the synapses alone has been quite illuminating."Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense.
— Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light
The queen sighed. "What am I going to do with all of you now!" "You're going to let us continue our journey," Belgarath replied calmly. "We'll argue about it, of course, but in the end that's the way it'll turn out."She stared at him. "You did ask, after all. I'm sure you feel better now that you know.
— David Eddings, Castle of Wizardry
You're impossible," she told him. "Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.
— David Eddings, Castle of Wizardry
I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.
— Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You
The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands
—  the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision.
Ah, well...hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.
— Susan  Kay, Phantom
Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?
— Lindsey Davis, Alexandria
I'd say," the Ranger answered after a few seconds' deliberation, "that he'll be heading south now that he has the chance. Back into Araluen.""How do you know that?" Horace asked. He was always impressed at the two Rangers' ability to read a situation and come up with the correct answer to a problem. Sometimes, he thought, they almost seemed to have divine guidance."I'm guessing," Halt told him.
— John Flanagan, Halt's Peril
And why would I be hiding from Master Chubb in his own kitchen?" Halt challenged. Again, Horace shrugged innocently. "Well, there was a tray of freshly made pies airing on the windowsill, wasn't there? And you're quite fond of pies, aren't you, Halt?" Halt drew himself up very straight in the saddle. "Are you accusing me of sneaking into that kitchen to steal the pies for myself? Is that it?" His voice and body language simply reeked of injured dignity."Of course not, Halt!" Horace hurried to assure him, and Halt's stiff-shouldered form relaxed a little."I just thought I'd give you the opportunity to confess," Horace added.
— John Flanagan, Halt's Peril
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree.
— John Flanagan, Halt's Peril
He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...
— Michael Swanwick
Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.
— Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.
— Julie Anne Long, Beauty and the Spy
Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.
— Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.
— Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers--no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription... (39)
— Susan Juby, The Truth Commission
He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?""Hurting.
— Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men
Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.
— Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men
Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will argue that 'try and' has won through and become idiom. Indeed it has, and it is relaxed and acceptable. But 'try to' is precise, and when you are writing formal prose, try and write 'try to.
— William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style
He looked at Ghastly. "Thoughts?""I want to kill Sanguine," was the first thing Ghastly said. "And I want to do it slowly, in front of a lot of people. Using a hammer."Skulduggery nodded. "Very healthy.
— Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men
The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man's voice called, "Uh, hello?"Valkyrie looked at Skulduggery, looked back at the others, looked at Skulduggery again."Hello," Skulduggery said, speaking loudly to be heard over the alarm. "Hi," said the man. "The door's locked.""Is it?""Yes.""That's funny" said Skulduggery. "Hold on a moment." He reached out, jiggled the handle a few times, then stepped back. "Yes, it's locked. You wouldn't happen to have the key, would you?"There was a delay in response from the other side. "I'm sorry," the man called, "Who am I speaking 
— Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men
As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in.
— Garth Nix, Superior Saturday
There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted myself on the back. I know it sounds arrogant, but how often does one achieve a mental triumph of that magnitude? After listening to her speak just two words, I had nailed the whole bloody thing. If Watson had been there, he would have been shaking his head and muttering under his breath.
— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!
— T.T. Faulkner
Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?
— Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
— David Eddings, The Belgariad, Vol. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit
Please don't arrest me.""Listen to me, I'm not going to arrest you, ok? I'm not a cop.""Are you sure?""Am I sure I'm not a cop? yes, I'm sure.""You could be undercover.
— Derek Landy, Death Bringer
If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading
You promise?""I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.
— Derek Landy, Death Bringer
I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me." "It was your humility, wasn't it?
— Derek Landy, Death Bringer
The Black Pit of Despair is temporarily closed for renovations. We apologize for any inconvenience.
— David C. Holley, Write like no one is reading
This isn't the first time I've used this, and the test subject showed no signs of impaired cognitive ability.""Who was the test subject?" asked Aurora."I test everything out on myself before taking it into the field."She stared at him. "You zapped your own brain?""And it didn't do me any harm apart from the dizziness and the vomiting spells and the weirdly persistent ringing in my ears. Also the blackouts and the mood swings and the creeping paranoia. Apart from that, zero side effects, if you don't count the numb fingertips. Which I don't.
— Derek Landy, The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant
What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our
— Derek Landy, Death Bringer
In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.
— Rolf Margenau
Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
This is unacceptable! We’re English, damn it! We know how to build things where they shouldn't be! - Governor Dewar
— MJL Evans and GM O'Connor
She’s like a cross between an onion and donkey,” Farah said.“Why?” Jason and Connor asked simultaneously.“Cause she’s a piece of ass that will bring a tear to your eye.” Farah laughed.
— Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree
He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.
— James Dashner, The Maze Runner
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
— Derek Landy, Dark Days
My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend torepeat them.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male- I hesitate to say 'man'- or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?
— Tamora Pierce
Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
What are you - Secret Service?''If I were, I wouldn't admit it.''And you're not admitting it, I notice.
— Robert Goddard, The Ways of the World
Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.
— James Dashner, The Maze Runner
Pearls are congealed oyster spit.
— Margaret Atwood
Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.
— Sid Bolon
He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.
— Lauren Weisberger, Chasing Harry Winston
There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.When? said Lata.When you were looking at Pran and Savita. Over the pudding.Oh.Well, what?I can't remember, said Lata with a smile.Amit laughed.Why are you laughing? asked LataI like making you feel uncomfortable, I suppose.Oh. Why?--Or happy--or puzzled--just to see your change of mood. It's such fun. I pity you!Why? said Lata, startled.Because you'll never know what a pleasure it is to be in your company. Do stop talking like that, said Lata. Ma will come in any minute.You're quite right. In that case: Will you marry me?Lata dropped her cup. It fell to the floor and broke. She looked at the broken pieces--luckily, it has been empty--and then at Amit.Quick! said Amit. Before they come running to see what's happened. Say yes.Lata had knelt down; she was gathering he bits of the cup together and placing them on the delicately patterned blue-and-gold saucer.Amit joined her on the floor. Her face was only a few inches away from his, but her mind appeared to be somewhere else. he wanted to kiss her but he sensed that there was no question of it. One by one she picked up the shards of china.Was it a family heirloom? asked Amit.What? I'm sorry--said Lata, snapped out of her trance by the words. Well, I suppose I'll have to wait. I was hoping that by springing it on you like that I'd surprise you into agreeing......Do stop being idotic, Amit, said Lata. You're so brilliant, do you have to be so stupid as well? I should only take you seriously in black and white.And in sickness and health.Lata laughed: For better and for worse, she added.
— Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
'Venti caramel macchiato, please,' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.' The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.' 'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.' 
— S.W. Vaughn, Skin Deep
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.
— Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts
—  it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
Never make eye contact with a stranger when you’re having a churro.
— Rucy Ban, All My Life
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
— Gail Carriger, Soulless
Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
It was the day he learned that smart, witty girls were brighter than sunlight.
— Olivia Fuller, Something Wicked
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.
— Barbara Hambly, The Witches of Wenshar
Anything can happen in love, war and South Inidan movies.
— Jennifer  Bernard
Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.
— Bobby Darnell
State your point. If the opposite party doesn't agree, state it harder- with a punch.
— Jennifer  Bernard
Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.
— Jincy Willett, The Writing Class
This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
— Charles Pearson
But have you ever seen one?....They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this passage - "Man, she liked that Bible. I'd read it and could definitely understand it's appeal, but I didn't have time for this.
— Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.
— James Thurber, The Wonderful O
Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He’s been taken by the Starks and we’ve lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king.The dwarf smiled crookedly. “All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Kevin", his father began, "I've been thinking about it – I guess I was kind of carried away. It's just that I've waited so long for my old school to make it to the Regionals... I suppose I was living it vicariously through you. Keith says you're not going to fail, after all. Is that right?""Looks like I'll make it. I know it's hard to believe...""Yes, it is. I was hoping you could get a football scholarship, you know. Something to waive the entrance requirements, because I don't know what college would take you-""Yeah. Thanks a lot Dad," Kevin said sarcastically. He already knew what his father thought of him and didn't need to be reminded yet again."Oh, come on. You know perfectly well that you're too stupid to-""That's not what my boyfriend says. Oh, by the way, Dad – I'm a faggot. Did I mention that?""... Kevin – get your stuff, and get out.""Gladly.
— Failte, The Girl For Me
One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books.
— Michael Hirst
(…) Trying to think of how to take the least crowded ways to class, so the least amount of people will stare at the hole in my neck. Sometimes it feels like it has a beacon in it, flashing for the entire world to see, except it's not cool like the Bat signal.
— Keary Taylor
Forgive me. It was stupid of me to think you might need company, when clearly all you required was that decanter.”“It was not stupid. It was very kind. Quite soft, actually. A very warm, womanly gesture. I am touched.” He smiled softly. “However, if you truly want to help, if you really want to distract me, there are better ways. When I saw that dress, I dared hope you had realized that.
— Madeline Hunter, Lady of Sin
All the same, we should excuse ourselves," Vergil said. "Although I am wondering if the meeting was already well concluded when we intruded." He gave Nathaniel a deep look on the last sentence that made Charlotte's caution prickle. She saw the big brother in him, thinking that a private chat with this man was in order.Bianca still had not picked up the cue. "You are making plans regarding the petitions?""I trust that a petition came up at some point in the visit," Vergil said dryly. "Correct, Knightridge?"Charlotte wanted to die. "Indeed one did," she said. "Mr. Knightridge is proving to be a great help in the cause."Bianca beamed. "I always knew that the two of you would find common ground in something.""Yes, we have discovered that we think alike in one small area," Nathaniel agreed.Charlotte wanted to hit him."Indeed," Vergil muttered.
— Madeline Hunter, Lady of Sin
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
— Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Life doesn't get much better than this.
— Stanford Wong
Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.
— Norman Mailer, Huckleberry Finn, Alive at One Hundred
Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!
— Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics, fig. e: Everybody knows failure is just success rounded down.
I believe that every story has happy end , Just don't stop trying to get it
— Antonious Atef
All of my days are held in your hand, crafted into your perfect Plan.
— Moosa Rahat
Sadly, peaks and valleys are a part of life. You are resilient and you will come out of this stronger than you ever thought possible. Trust me—I know. It’s crucial to remain positive and optimistic.
— Matt Abrams, She's Toxic
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
So let me just say this. There are ways. You already know that because, in your life, there have been High Kindness periods and Low Kindness periods, and you know what inclined you toward the former and away from the latter. Education is good; immersing ourselves in a work of art: good; prayer is good; meditation’s good; a frank talk with a dear friend; establishing ourselves in some kind of spiritual tradition — recognizing that there have been countless really smart people before us who have asked these same questions and left behind answers for us. It would be strange and self-defeating to fail to seek out these wise voices from the past--as self-defeating as it would be to attempt to rediscover the principles of physics from scratch or invent a new method of brain surgery without having learned the ones that already exist.
— George Saunders
I try my best to surround myself with people who're smarter than I'm
—  individuals who add values
Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.
— Emma Straub, Modern Lovers
That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself." (pg. 342)
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
— Augustus Waters The Fault in Our Stars
You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up so act your age.
— Diana Rose Morcilla
When things are bad, be thankful...they are not as bad as they could be.
— Dixie Waters
To be joyous of heart is to hold an optimistic outlook, to see adversity as opportunity, to see failure as the starting point of success, to view our stubbed toes as the release of acupuncture points, to wake with a feeling of gratitude, and to sleep with a sustaining, unfaltering trust in the Universe of which we are a part. The person with a joyous heart is a treasure to be with, a wellspring of inspiration, and a fit companion. When we are joyous of heart, we hear a resonance in the songs of the birds, see resonance in the opening of a flower, and feel it in the pressure of a friend’s hand.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Vol. II: Guidance from the Book of Changes
I try to see only the good in him
—  I try.
If you can't bear it, dare it.
— Shlomo Reuben
We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
— Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware
Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us.
— Gia Russell
I don't think tour dying. I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
— Hazel Grace Lancaster
There are different types of people in the world. There are people who accept what's in front of them unquestioningly. The live in the dark. In defeat. Ignoring what the future might bring or how they might help to make things happen. Then there are people like me. Optimists. They too live in the dark, in times like these, but dream of the light. I trust in the possibilities of betterness. I believe there is more to life than this. I have to. There's no other choices for me.
— Jeyn Roberts, Dark Inside
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
— Heather Brewer
I can't die yet, honey. I haven't finished counting the stars and don't you know, my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.
— Barbara Freethy, Just the Way You Are
Do the new, be the change.
— Neeraj Vohara
In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.
— Lionel Suggs
Don’t be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming
—  it won’t be helpful for the solution!
The knowledge of Evil brings you near to God.
— Abhijit Tripathi
Make your optimism come true!
— Disha
In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive
— Keith Urban
She laid her heart and soul right in your handsAnd you stole her every dream and crushed her plansShe never even knew she had a choiceAnd that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can'tYou stupid boy
— Keith Urban
Wait!" he yelled.I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost stopped.Maybe I would have if he'd followed me. But he didn't. He got in his car and he left, just like he said he would.
— Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You
It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..
— Keith Urban
There’s still this thing that happens after you break up withsomeone. It barely takes any time to work. All you have to dois continue with your life, and then when you find yourself in aroom with her again it’s as if you’re a different person. Maybeyour posture is a little more confident. Maybe your laughter islouder. You’re wearing perfume she’s never smelled before andyou have a new way of pinning back your hair. You don’t evenhave to say anything because your presence alone is enough tosay Look at who I am without you.
— Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You
I know that asshole you were with in college --”“Can we leave that asshole out of it?”Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.
— Josh Lanyon, The Hell You Say
The boy she'd once loved was gone, and she'd accept it. But even if she didn't want Eric back, he'd hurt her. He was the enemy, and the Universal Girl Code stipulated friends should band together in hating the ****** till death.
— Melissa Landers, Alienated
You will not be my X, but you will always be my full story from ( A to Z )
— fouadid
I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
- What happens to people that love each other?- I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.
— Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
She came to me like an angelTried to change meBut a dog will always be a dogI didn't changeThings got worseLost herMaybe I will move on but its very hard to forget all the memories we made.
— Abesh Das
Does it really hurt? Loving?
— Saumya Kaushik...
Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?
— Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 2
I loved Emma.' The words, so flat and final, explode into the air. 'But she lied to me. I thought perhaps I could have the love without the lies. With you, I mean. Do you remember your application letter? How you talked about integrity and honesty and trust? That was what made me think it might work, that it might be better this time. But I've never loved you the way I loved her.
— J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
One day… You are going to remember me and how much I loved you, and then you are going to hate yourself for letting me go.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe.
— Charles Bukowski
I briefly consider keying her precious BMW, but quite frankly, I don't have the energy to go all Carrie Underwood on her ass. I still have over an hour drive ahead of me. -Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain
— Ashley Jade, Blame It on the Pain
The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.
— Lindsey Kelk, The Single Girl's To-Do List
...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring.They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Because if anything can make death feel like a truly desirable alternative, it's getting dumped.
— Melissa Kantor, The Breakup Bible
Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Have you ever experienced human love?”“Yes. Once.”Regret shadowed his face. “Then why would you be willing to repeat it?”“What we learn is worth more than what we lose.
— Elizabeth Langston, Wishing for You
The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.
— Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files
We don't get to choose who we fall in love with. If we did, the world would have fewer single mothers.
— Margaret A. Belt
I've learned that just because I don't know how to break up with someone, doesn't mean they were worth keeping.
— Steve Maraboli
Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.
— David Z. Hirsch, Didn't Get Frazzled
Get inches from the mirror and tell yourself what happened. Give yourself the news like an autopsy. At 10:02 on Saturday, he discarded you. At oh-nine-hundred-hours, you were overlooked. At whatever time of whenever day, it didn’t work, and it wasn’t what you thought, and it left you in the ash and the rain. Cry and holler and selectively remember whatever it is you want. It will be whatever you want.
— Kelton Wright, Anonymous Asked: Life Lessons from the Internet's Big Sister
Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.
— Darian Wilk, Reinventing Claire
There is no reason to meet you ! I remain in state of Bliss !
— Puneet Arora
In true Love, you are always blessed….Either being with the person or just by not.
— Manali
Now I think of breaking up as moving. Imagine you have your own house, full of your own boxes. A person you meet has his own house, full of his own boxes. When you have a relationship with that person, you shack up in a third house, into which you can each put any number of your boxes. You shouldn't move them all in at once, or else you will seem too eager. And don't dawdle too much either, or you will seem skittish about commitment. You kind of aim to match each other's pace, so that the power balance feels fair and equal. Happy marriage--at least ideally--would be the situation in which both parties enthusiastically choose to keep all of their boxes in their shared house. Conversely, when someone starts to doubt the relationship, he might move a box or two back into his own house, just in case. While he's weighing his options, he may transport a few more boxes to the safety of his own home. When he's ready to take back his final few boxes, he breaks up with you. If you were too infatuated to see it coming, there you are, with all of your boxes in the shared house, and none in the security of your own home.
— Tyler Oakley, Binge
There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.
— Gaby Dunn, Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1
You can't break up what was never together. But my heart didn't get that memo.
— Rachel  Harris, The Fine Art of Pretending
In my mind he is a demon and a godand I blame him, I blame him, I blame himfor the world I created on my ownas much as the one he built around me.
— Miriam Joy, Broken Body Fragile Heart
Sometimes the immunity of innocence, sincerity, commitment and truth fails in life…These all work till the moment when absolute equals nothingness…It’s all about the theory of relativity…Things you damn sure suddenly become uncertain…Absolute certainty becomes absolute uncertainty….
— Dipin Damodharan
how lord masuka brought back my ex back
— colby lantee
Cole didn’t see her for the rest of the weekend, and he was glad.She wasn’t in class on Monday either. That made it easier.Tuesday she was still missing.
— Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down
i loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore.
— Nikki Rowe
They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction—and from attachment to attachment.
— Yasmin Mogahed
I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life," Curt said with a force that startled her.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
It's hard to let go of something you never really had but, even harder when you know it’s everything you ever wanted,
— Anais Torres, Being Brave Again
Ryan rolled his eyes. "Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.
— Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle
Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
I’ve spoken to Sid,” she admits. “He says he’s never seen Charlie so bad. He won’t eat, he’s lost weight and he looks terrible. Sid says it’s the first time he’s ever been so bored by him that he’s considered smothering him.
— Lily Morton, Promise Me
Unconnected to the life of love, uncolored by love, the world resumes its own, its natural and callous importance. This is first a blow, then an odd consolation. And already I felt my old self - my old, devious, ironic, isolated self - beginning to breathe again and stretch and settle, though all around it my body clung cracked and bewildered, in the stupid pain of loss.
— Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
We do not leave those whom we truly love. We only break the hearts of those whom we can tolerate their hurts and can move away from their pain" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions
— Maha Khlaid
That's life, You know . Dreams come true, just to get ripped away the millisecond you begin to let down your guard and let someone in. And thus the "circle" waits to begin anew.
— Jacob Daniel Plunkett
Sometimes it's harder to say sorry, then it is to say goodbye.
— Michelle Blanchard
The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.
— Donna Lynn Hope
the lessons are best when the pain is worse
— misheck cicero
If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don’t just skulk around.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
The get over a bad break up just get a good hair cut.It really works
— Disha
when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.
— Peter Adejimi