Book Quotes Quotes

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

~ Sloane Crosley

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

~ Sloane Crosley

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

~ Sloane Crosley

So natural and universal is a child's curiosity about sex and so long are we conscious of it before we do it, that our original impressions of it leave an indelible mark.

~ Sloane Crosley

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

~ Sloane Crosley

I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos - you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life.

~ Sloane Crosley

It seemed that having girlfriends was a sign of innocence and a boundless capacity to care about other women. The hearts in that photograph and multiple strings attached to multiple other hearts. Everything was less about cliché and more about camaraderie. We weren't out for ourselves, we were out for each other. When had I forgotten that? When had I cut the pink wire?

~ Sloane Crosley

The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.

~ Anthony Burgess

Weddings are friendship deal breakers if the friendship is weak. There are too many favors, too many tasks, too much required devotion and Aqua Net for imposters like me. I tried to make eye contact with Francine, to give her a knowing good-bye smile like a ghost of a loved one in a movie. It was no usue, I decided to cut my final pink wire. There would be no more yearly happy birthdays and certainly no more bonding with the girl in the duct tape dress. That ship had sailed.

~ Sloane Crosley

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

~ Sloane Crosley

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

~ Sloane Crosley

It should be noted that my mother has a long history of being disturbingly unperturbed by what normal people deem perturbing. Certain things simply don't strike her as worthy of a sit-down.

~ Sloane Crosley

Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.

~ Sloane Crosley

Even a person like this makes mistakes, can't always hold on to everything they'd like to,can't always force the world to spin in the direction of their choosing. You'll hug him longer than necessary and tell him to keep in touch. And you'll know, finally, that it had nothing to do with you.

~ Sloane Crosley

In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.

~ Susan Sontag

The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

~ Susan Sontag

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it - say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken - or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.

~ Susan Sontag

When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.

~ Anthony Burgess

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

~ Anthony Burgess

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

~ Susan Sontag

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to care more.

~ Susan Sontag

Often something looks, or is felt to look, better in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)

~ Susan Sontag

Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once.

~ Haruki Murakami

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

~ Anthony Burgess

You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.

~ Anthony Burgess

The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists?

~ Anthony Burgess

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

~ A.f. Stewart

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.

~ Millie Florence

Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their lives while you observe from the sidelines.

~ Charbel Tadros

You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with your naked soul.

~ Melody Lee

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

~ Marie-Sabine Roger

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

~ Anurag Shourie

over the decadesher books becamesuch a part of herthatthe ink somehow escapedher veins & bloomedher favorite words & imagesonto her skin.nowthe worldwould have no doubt:she was thepageboundgirl- page to skin

~ Amanda Lovelace

We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego

~ Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.

~ Vivek Pereira

When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.

~ Kelly Moran

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

~ Avijeet Das

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

Reading doesn't put you to sleep... it makes you dream...

~ Nanette L. Avery