Jerri Holsten > Jerri's Quotes

“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

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― Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

“Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. ”
― Franz Kafka

“But Seehund hurled his love at her, his entire body. It was a love she recognized—she’d felt it within herself but had never been able to demonstrate it with such abandon.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on
automatically. There was nobody there.
“What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the
side of his head and everything went black.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.”
― David Sedaris

“El amor, dice, es ciego, pero no es exactamente así: el amor es un ojo extra con el que se ve tan sólo lo que hay de bueno en el ser amado, permaneciendo ciego a todas sus faltas.

- Mahabharata (Tomo 1)”
― Vyasa

“I will never know. Whatever the truth is, I must not hate Rose”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. —CORDELL HULL, secretary of state to President Franklin Delano R”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“But I find I get pretty tired when I try.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper