Eric Lin > Eric's Quotes

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."

Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
― Edward J. Stieglitz

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue Hose refers to stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.”
― Gregg Easterbrook, The King of Sports: Football's Impact on America

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
― Warren Buffett

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls