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  • #1
    Agatha Christie
    “And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
    "Ah, no, my friend-"
    "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #2
    Agatha Christie
    “You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"

    It will not."

    If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me."

    I, also M. Ratchett."

    What's wrong with my proposition?"

    Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #3
    Meg Cabot
    “Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.”
    Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

  • #4
    Lisa See
    “Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”
    Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
    Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #10
    Rick Riordan
    “I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves."
    "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #11
    Rick Riordan
    “Oh, and Drew, honey?”
    The former counselor looked back reluctantly.
    “In case you think I’m not a true daughter of Aphrodite,” Piper said, “don’t even look at Jason Grace. He may not know it yet, but he’s mine. If you even try to make a move, I will load you into a catapult and shoot you across Long Island Sound.”
    Drew turned around so fast, she ran into the doorframe. Then she was gone.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
    "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #15
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #17
    Cassandra Clare
    “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
    "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #19
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
    "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “Are you the one with the blue eyes?"
    "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex."
    "At least you know he's still available.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #22
    Cassandra Clare
    “I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “You think she’ll be able to talk sense into him?” she asked. “His sister?”
    "If he listens to anyone, it would be her.”
    “That’s sweet,” said Maia. “That he loves his sister like that.”
    “Yeah,” Simon said. “It’s precious”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
    "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
    "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."
    Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #28
    Cassandra Clare
    “You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."
    "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
    "It was an analogy."
    "I am not fat.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #29
    Cassandra Clare
    “Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #30
    Cassandra Clare
    “Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes



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