Ev > Ev's Quotes

“A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I’d be counting every small victory tonight.”
― Lisa Kessler, Ice Moon

“You’re not in this alone anymore. I’m not going anywhere, and if you’ll let me, I’ve got broad shoulders for you to lean on whenever you need me.”
― Lisa Kessler, Ice Moon

“She stepped back, staring up into my eyes. “You’ve given me hope.” She ran her hand up my chest. “I don’t know how to thank you for that.”

I grinned. “You can start by taking my calls.”
― Lisa Kessler, Ice Moon

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You're so drunk you might shoot off your nipple, and then where would you be?" --Dolly

"Nippleless. Without a nipple. Bosom with no nipple."
-Ariel

"Wish List" by Fern Michaels”
― Fern Michaels, Wish List

“You shouldn't believe anything you hear standing outside a plywood window. Everyone knows plywood distorts vowels...words...sayings." -Ariel”
― Fern Michaels, Wish List

“Hope is a crutch for weaklings. The strong carry on without." -Animal”
― Indra Sinha, Animal's People

“You can fight without hope if the heart finds strength in something stronger." --Zafar”
― Indra Sinha, Animal's People

“Katniss, it's just hunting. You're the best hunter I know." Gale

"It's not just hunting. They're armed, they think." --Katniss

"So do you. And you've had more practice. Real practice. You know how to kill." --Gale

"Not people." --Katniss

"How different can it be, really?" --Gale

The awful thing is that if I can forget they're people, it will be no different at all. --Katniss”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Now that the meal is over, I'm fighting to keep the food down. I can see Peeta's looking a little green, too. Neither of our stomachs is used to such rich fare. But if I can hold down Greasy Sae's concoction of mice meat, pig entrails, and tree bark--a winter specialty--I'm determined to hang on to this." --Katniss”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Just then, Haymitch staggers into the compartment. “I miss supper?” he says in a slurred voice. Then he vomits all over the expensive carpet and falls in the mess. “So laugh away!” says Effie Trinket.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“There's been an accident. I had Mr. Loosey on the table, and I was gonna get him dressed, and then I had to go fix the thermostat, and when I got back to Mr. Loosey, I noticed he was missing his..um, private part. I don't know how this could happen. One minute it was there, and the next minute it was gone."
-Louie Moon, mortician's assistant”
― Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough

“I'm a shadow, and no one remembers shadows."
---Mare Barrow”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.”
― Theodore Roscoe, Only In New England: The Story of A Gaslight Crime

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“It was too early in the morning for family patriotism."
-Cecelia Brady”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“Wylie: "If you don't like advice, why do you pay me?"

Stahr: "That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“One of the pilots asked Mr. Smith if he liked his business, and Mr. Smith said, "Sure. Sure I like it. It's nice being the only sound nut in a hatful of cracked ones." ---Stewardess to Cecelia Brady”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“At any rate, that is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great." -Jim Burden”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more."
-Jim Burden”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Jacques La Borwitz had his points, no doubt, but so have the sub-microscopic protozoa, so has a dog prowling for a bitch and a bone." -Cecelia Brady”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon