Anthologies Quotes

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

~ Jim Fusilli

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

~ Parnell Hall

I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

~ Angus Mclinn

Fate bring two people togetherand it is love's job t o keep them there.

~ Juvy Ann

Life is short break the rules.forgive quickly, kiss slowly love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile...

~ Juvy Ann

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

~ Lawrence Block

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

~ Juvy Ann

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

~ Juvy Ann

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

~ Constance Renfrow

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

~ Aberjhani

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

~ Jill D. Block

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)

~ Jill D. Block

Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.

~ Mina Holmes

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

~ Jerrold Mundis

A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

~ Jonathan Santlofer

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

~ Peter Hochstein

I never sleep well when I'm on call.

~ Joshua Tuttle

Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)

~ Jane Dentinger

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

~ Erin Mitchell

We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.

~ Tyler Barton

At least a hospital stay will give him an excuse to halt the job hunt.

~ Stephanie Bramson

The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

~ Warren Moore

He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.

~ Tiffany Ferentini

Everyone loves a goddamned trainwreck, after all.

~ Carolyn Drake

Cigarette smoke when i didn't ask for it. Never when I did.

~ Ifra Asad

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

~ Mary Papas

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

~ Thomas Pluck

There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.

~ Jared Shaffer

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)

~ Tom Callahan

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)

~ Peter Carlaftes

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

~ Katherine Sloan

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

~ Angela Sloan

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

~ Xingyue Sarah He

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

~ David Levien

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

~ Brian Koppelman

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

~ Brian Koppelman