Taylor > Taylor's Quotes

“I’m not going to admit to him that I needed help. “I was doing just fine without you.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“Adam offered her a heart-melting smile and a wink, then headed for the door. With his hand on the door, he paused and turned back.
Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

“It had taken me a full three days to read and study the police reports. My initial thought was to find what I thought I wanted to see, but I quickly abolished that idea because I couldn’t tell what I needed to see. There was just too much information. I never really knew where that break was going to come from and I didn’t want to miss anything.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“I will say, this bed is really comfortable... What is it a pillow top? Damn, I slept great.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

“Unmistakably behind Native Son, although in no way detracting from Wright’s personal achievement in creating the novel, is the tradition of naturalism, especially urban naturalism, in American writing as epitomized before Wright by novelists such as Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, and James T. Farrell. To such writers, the city in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in America could be an alluring place; but it also often was, for persons without brains or money or simply good luck, a crucible in which the superficial elements of personality and civilization were quickly burned away, to reveal the animal underneath.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears, that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”
― Douglas Adams

“One ship drives east and another drives west With the self-same winds that blow. ’Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, “WINDS OF FATE”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“For a short time Alex had been a celebrity, and yet here he was still tugging away at the same thread, hoping something new would emerge.”
― Murray Bailey, The Mark of Eternity

“They had gone through so much as children. It had been them against the world. Their bonds forged in the fires of hardship. Bonds that never frayed. Never weakened. They were more than friends; they were chosen family.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Sow at the right time and the season will often meet you halfway.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Acceptance can be so freeing. Before you know it, you’ll move toward forgiveness, which leads to wholeness.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Cheers . . . here’s to the City of Buffalo often coined as a drinking city with a sports problem.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Teruggaan naar Christ Temple is hetzelfde als teruggaan naar je basisschool als je al op de middelbare school zit. Als je klein bent lijkt het heel groot, maar als je teruggaat besef je hoe klein het eigenlijk is.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“had a long drink of water. It was delicious and refreshing (it had been a cloud only hours before).”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Jesus”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals