"The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)

""Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord ot time dissaperaed under a giant blue butt. "
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

""I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me""
— Donald Miller

"You left me."
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.
"
— Alyson Noel (Blue Moon)

"The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking."
— Alyson Noel

"Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits."
— Christopher Moore

"What one man can invent, another can discover."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear"
— Leonard Cohen

"Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

"I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life."
— Melissa de la Cruz (Blue Bloods)

""You want me and I want you. right?"
Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right."
"
— Christopher Moore (Coyote Blue)

""We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?"
The monk said, "Does a dog have a Buddha nature?"
"Does a fish have a watertight asshole?" said Coyote."
— Christopher Moore (Coyote Blue)

"I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit."
— Donald Miller

"Did you see the sky today? TALK ABOUT BLUE"
— The Emporer's New Groove

"Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go."
— Melissa de la Cruz (The Van Alen Legacy)

"That makes you... A gay robot!!!"
— Caboose

"One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope."
— Anita Diamant (The Red Tent)

""In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom."

"
— Pascal Mercier

"Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"So you think I'm a lush?

-oliver -Revelations-"
— Mellissa De la cruz

"Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting."
— Melissa de la Cruz (The Van Alen Legacy)

"The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him."
— Melissa de la Cruz (The Van Alen Legacy)

"Get er done "
— Larry the Cable Guy

"You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."
Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?"
— Melissa de la Cruz (The Van Alen Legacy)

"Europe? They have an online film festival in that country?

It's not a country.

Oh, then: City?

No.

State?

No!

City-State?

NO!!!

Then what the hell is Europe?

It's a continent, dumbass.

Oh, that explains it. I don't believe in continents, I believe in God.

What? That doesn't even make sense!"
— Pvt. Tucker and Pvt. Church, RvB

"When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level."
— David Baldacci

"Yes no yes no yes no?
Red blue?
Yes red, no blue?
No red, yes no?
In out, up down?
Do don't, can can't?
Choices sit on the shelf life
New shoes in a shoe shop.
If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe
And the one pair left are too tiny for you
Don't feel compelled into choosing them
If you're really a size 9, buy that size.
While everyone else
Hobbles round with sore feet
Your choices should feel comfortable
Or they aren't your choices at all.
Why limp when you can sprint?"
— David Baird (Fiesta of Happiness: Be True to Yourself)

"The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasn’t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellow’s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasn’t violet’s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green."
— William Gass

"It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments."
— Susan Vreeland

"Grif: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Sarge: Yeah. Somethin' just doesn't seem right.

Caboose: Yeah, I know. Everything is on the left."
— RvB

"Maybe I knew it was a trick question, so I gave you a trick answer."
— Caboose