Drew Bennett > Drew's Quotes

“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“Carry the fire.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
― joseph heller, Catch-22

“When in doubt, say nothing and move on.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“Tous pour un, un pour tous”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Stories are weapons, you see. All stories. Some are swords and some are cudgels, but all of them can hurt you, if you allow it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds

“We men are wretched things.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“In a society full of vice, virtue will never be useful.”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“...a man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Only God knows how much I love you.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Fire & Ash

“This man. Sometimes it feels as if he’ll never stop cracking my heart to fit more of himself inside.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“The trick is forgetting for one moment and then forgetting for another moment and then look, the moments run together like a string of beads, and there is heartbreak in the forgetting of heartbreak, in the forgetting of pain, which returns bright and pulsing regardless of the seconds it has been put aside. Do not leave me here, it tells you. Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

“God A’mighty, what’s the point of livin’ if you don’t fight for what you hold dear?”
― Robert McCammon, Swan Song

“If you can’t know what’s right in front of you, you can’t know what’s beyond you.”
― Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

“No one carries the best parts of themselves. The best parts are those held inside of others.”
― Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

“Jay didn't find his dad's remains. He is his dad's remains.”
― Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms