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#1

“My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

tags: comic, fiction, funny, humor

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#2

“Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised.
"Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, and told her.
"Age?" she asked. "Sex? Occupation?"
"Writer," I said.
"Housewife," she said.
"Writer," I said.
"I'll just put down housewife," she said.”
― Shirley Jackson

tags: motherhood, women-writers, writing

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#3

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three

2286 likes

#4

“Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve and Other Stories

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, creation, humor, love, men-and-women

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#5

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16944 likes

#6

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: adventure

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#7

“The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: ginny-weasley

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#8

“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, books, christmas, desire, family, joke, socks

3696 likes

#9

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

189 likes

#10

“Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.”
― Jasper Fforde

tags: humor, peter-rabbit

104 likes

#11

“It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.”
― Christopher Moore, Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d Art

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#12

“The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: angels, humor, jazz, miles-davis

32 likes

#13

“To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#14

“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

48 likes

#15

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

tags: time

482 likes

#16

“He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

105 likes

#17

“He had his head in hand hands, and his tie looked like it had been put on by an enemy, and was strangling him.”
― Caitlin Moran

tags: character-description, clever, humor

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#18

“The thing is, when you start smoking, you think you’ve bought a fun baby dragon. You think you’ve charmed a fabulous beast, as your toy, that will impress all that see it. And then, twenty years later, you wake up with your lungs full of cinder and shite, and the bed on fire, and you realize the dragon grew up—and burned your fucking house down.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

9 likes

#19

“Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: humor-canary

991 likes

#20

“And you will be quite on your own when you do all this. There is no academy where you can learn to be yourself; there is no line manager slowly urging you toward the correct answer. You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

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#21

“You’ve never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It’s like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

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#22

“I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.”
― Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages

tags: bedtime, motherhood

18 likes

#23

“Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience.”
― Shirley Jackson

tags: children, motherhood

2 likes

#24

“I’m not scared, Daddy. I just need some crunchy Cheese Newts up in this bitch.”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

3 likes

#25

“Minty Fresh made a motion with his hands of leveling, as if he were smoothing an imaginary tablecloth of calm over a counter constructed of contemporary freak-out.”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

5 likes

#26

“LOST 2 Irish Hellhounds. Very black, like bear. Huge, like bear. Answer to Alvin and Mohammed. Like to eat everything. Like bear! REWARD!”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

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#27

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

2913 likes

#28

“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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#29

“I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

207 likes

#30

“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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