"So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end."
Roberto Bolaño
"Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same."
Elyne Mitchell
"Maybe I should have got some chili-slaw dogs from Shorty’s. Everybody loves those.” “Buddy,” Lars said, dropping his shoes to the deck with a thump, “sit yourself down and stop fussing. You’re reminding me of my Aunt Glynna with all this temperature takin’ and foil tuckin’. This food is fine."
Mary Jane Hathaway
"We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are."
Terry Brooks
"What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool."
David Millar
"No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you."
Sorin Cerin
"I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire."
Sarah Brownlee
"Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death."
Leo Tolstoy
"Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?"
Lisa Tawn Bergren
"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
B. F. Skinner
"Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over."
Kristen Callihan
"Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal."
Rafael Yglesias
"All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension."
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