Page 43 Quotes

“Tyson balled his fists and slammed them into the Bulls face. "BAD COW!”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“We both laughed. I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, the sensation of being propelled toward the end and at the same time wishing to linger.”
― Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

“The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“I made him look at my showpiece, a straight-edged Egyptian stamp with a pyramid that was listed in the catalog for four hundred marks. He shrugged. If I cared that much about my collection, maybe I should hang on to it. Was I even allowed to be selling it? What did my parents say about it? I tried to bargain. If the stamp with the pyramid wasn’t that valuable, I would just keep it. Then he could only give me thirty marks. So the stamp with the pyramid was valuable after all? In the end I got seventy marks. I felt cheated, but I didn’t care.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“She ate two more sandwiches in an absorbed, rather gobbling fashion in the manner of one who crams food into themselves as though they had an important train to catch.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

“You know I always feel that one of the most unpalatable facts to be faced in life, is the fact that every death that occurs means a gain to someone—I don’t mean only financially.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Thomas, I believe, is a very capable fellow—certainly Humbleby always said so, but he didn’t get on here very well. He was, I think, overshadowed by Humbleby who was a man of very definite magnetism. Thomas appeared rather colourless in contrast.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy