Anthony Holtzer > Anthony's Quotes

“She looked to Roy as though she lived in Oz, in the land of color, like she carried it with her everywhere she went. When they began dating, he found that her energy was the perfect counterpoint to the world into which he sank at regular intervals, that black and white Kansas that he inhabited.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“Two gasps rang out. The first one came from Clara, the second from Fezzo. One moment they'd been looking at a mound of concrete, and now they were staring at two human feet. They were crossed at the ankle so that tops of the feet faced each other and rested toe to toe.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

“Most of us can find our way out of the wilderness without Moses.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“What use are memories when memories can do little more than fade?”
― Anthony Doerr, About Grace

“Knowledge isn’t love”
― Kiera Cass, The Prince

“I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle