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“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains?”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“His huge, hairless, glowing-red cock and balls swung loose between his thighs like the clapper of a bell. ==========”
― Anonymous

“Rekers’s fat begins under his nipples and increases exponentially until it eases back at his thighs. It looks as if a regular fat guy had some sort of seismic shift resulting in a landslide. A manslide. Chief Rekers is a walking manslide.”
― Christa Charter, Summer Wind

“We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization’s technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other’s guts.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Although the clientele were primarily the Eloi of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, an incident a month earlier had involved a platinumed-out crew of Bronx Morlocks:”
― Richard Price, Lush Life

“Life’s funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there’s still so much of a life to get through.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“When a kid struggles at math, instead of saying, “Maybe math isn’t one of your strengths,” Dweck recommends, “The feeling of math being hard is the feeling of your brain growing.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“There was not a number at which anyone said, “I have a good life. I’d like to see if I can help someone else have a good life.” These were criminals—yes, most of them were real, live criminals. Not always with jailable offenses, but certainly morally abhorrent ones: They had offshore accounts or they underpaid their assistants or they didn’t pay taxes on their housekeepers or they were NRA members.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

“The world kept telling her to look away, to pay no attention to an age-old system, in which men thrived and inconvenient women disappeared.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“Help us to make America great again.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Patience is a virtue, you tell yourself. Good things come to those who wait. You never before realized how many aphorisms are just attempts to convince the agitated not to act.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Anonymous

“In my youth, I had respected my father’s intelligence, not recognizing how much sharper my mother’s was because hers was concealed by being pleasant and female.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

“His core furnishings were an XBox console, a 60-inch plasma,”
― Carl Hiaasen, Squeeze Me

“Oh God, Leon’s laugh. So dark and wild you could drown a bag of kittens in it.”
― Denise Mina, Conviction

“not far from the lonely telegraph station that picked up the last distress signals of the HMS Titanic, is still more fossil graffiti left on old ocean rocks by these pseudo-creatures—hieroglyphic echoes of life in the perpetual midnight of the ancient deep.”
― Peter Brannen, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

“He reloaded the magazine and slammed it into the grip faster than a geek could crack a Mountain Dew, drain it, and belch a Yoda quote.”
― Christa Charter, Pwned

“That’s always the way, isn’t it? The threat of physical violence eclipses everything. As a child, you know it, and as a woman, it’s always in the back of your mind.”
― Samantha Downing, He Started It

“trying to get Dutch people to prepare for disasters was a little like trying to get English people to watch football on the telly or Americans to buy guns.”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

“Ella usually hates it when people call her honey, that saccharine old man’s reward for being young and female, usually employed around the time someone tells her she should smile more.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“You have kids and you think I made you, so we’re the same, but it’s not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“When your opponent has no honor, you must fight in different ways, smarter ways.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone