"When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing."
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"'the reason i want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um...' 'you've never seen a guy with his shirt off?' 'ha, ha. very funny. believe me, you don't have anything i haven't seen before.' 'wanna bet?' he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. isabel walks in at that exact moment. 'whoa, alex. please keep your pants on.'"
— Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry)

""I'm losing control."-Brittany
"Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex "
— Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry)

"I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come."
— Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry)

"You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint."
— Alex Sanchez

"Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley"
— Alex Garland

""He's going to the hair doctor. The man's going bald." You hadn't noticed that whole underdeveloped region right up in here?"
"Oh, you're one to talk, Slick."
"Nah. See, when a black man goes bald, he still looks good. Look at Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Samuel L. Jackson, Classy-lookin' brothers, Who you got? Kojak?""
— Alex Kendrick

"The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness. My parents understood that fine crystal glass had to be cared for or may be shattered. But when it came to my brother, they didn’t seem to know or care that their course of their secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them. Their fraudulent marriage and our father’s denial of his other son was for Chris a murder of every day’s truth. He felt his whole life turned like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow. Suddenly running uphill. These revelations struck at the core of Chris’s sense of identity. They made his entire childhood seem like fiction. Chris never told them he knew and made me promise silence as well. “"
— Carine-"Into the Wild"

"'Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?' -Alex, A Clockwork Orange"
— Anthony Burgess

"It'll be impossible t for the rest to protect Brittany for the rest of her life from all the other guys who want to be near her, to see her as I've seen her. Touch her as I've touch her. Man, I never want to let her go."
— Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry)