Corrie > Corrie's Quotes

“Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“With that in mind, I try to imagine the greatest gift I could've given my father. And as sleep descends on me, the answer seems strangely clear: my faith in his idols. That was what he wanted all along - to feel that we were united by something permanent, to know that as long as he and I believed in the same thing, we would never be apart.”
― Ian Caldwell

“It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green.”
― Michael Chabon, Summerland

“Incidentally, if you have never stalked someone close to you, I highly recommend it. Check out how it tranforms them. How other they become, and how infinitely necessary and justified the stalking becomes when you realize how little you know about them, how mysterious every aspect of them seems with an at a distance but close examiniation.”
― Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document

“Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?”
― Dana Spiotta

“I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

“How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others?”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood