Ben Voss > Ben's Quotes

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Women have always been spies.”
― Harriet Rubin, Princessa

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Happy endings aren't for cowards.”
― Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night