Tim > Tim's Quotes

“So, have you split up now?”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“​You don't know about me without you have read a book called "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Tom!”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It is an ancyant Marinere,
And he stoppeth one of three:
‘By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye
Now wherefore stoppest me?”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“At dusk they pour from the sky,”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“A private plane sits on a runway in Martha’s Vineyard, forward stairs deployed.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“124 was spiteful.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Son, Last Sunday the host of a popular news show ask me what it meant to loose my body.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham - the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“He was the oldest son.”
― Steven Price, By Gaslight

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“On December 13, 1931, a fifty-seven-year-old English politician, still a member of Parliament but quite unwelcome in his own party’s government, stepped out of a taxi on New York’s Fifth Avenue.”
― Thomas E. Ricks, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

“​A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A fuse had blown in Swindon, so the south-west network ground to a halt.”
― mick herron, Dead Lions

“How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“​3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“When people ask me what I do--taxi drivers, hairdressers--I tell them I work in an office.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Lydia is dead.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I've begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“​While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby