Shari > Shari's Quotes

“You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets

“Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow’s mother…sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“In the end, it comes down, as it always comes down, to each individual human being doing what he—or she—must to live with himself/herself.”
― William H. Patterson Jr., Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: The Man Who Learned Better, 1948–1988

“But the current PC dictate of being über aware of race had filtered through my consciousness, and it pissed me off. The fact that we had to be aware because of racists and bigots and horrible things appalled me. To me, people were people—good, bad, or indifferent. Race had nothing to do with where you fell on that spectrum.”
― Deborah Coonts, Lucky Score

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal’s throat.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation