Page 58 Quotes

“Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask.
Something I couldn’t name flashed across his face.
“No. I don’t think you’re pretty. I think you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

“It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“There I went again, building p a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few posy nothings.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy.

You were too busy being. And you are too busy now. You couldn't spare the time to note down a few facts: how the sun and silence poured into the big room with the yellow curtains; how everything was never-ending and expendable. ”
― Elizabeth Smart, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

“If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.”
― James Edwin Gunn, The Immortals

“But I know that in my heart of hearts that drinking is about as good an escape as an innocent game of suicide skiing, so I know also that David's complete obsession with video games of this type, or any type, are far from healthy.”
― Sarabeth Purcell

“ما هو بالاستسلام ولكنه الانهيار. يستطيع أن يتخيَّل الواقع وراءه”
― نجيب محفوظ, حضرة المحترم

“Lennie breathed hard. “You jus’ let ’em try to get the rabbits. I’ll break their God damn necks. I’ll . . . . I’ll smash ’em with a stick.” He subsided, grumbling to himself, threatening the future cats which might dare to disturb the future rabbits.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“an' by God he would.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn’t call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn’t think you could. When Venner turned down a dark and narrow country lane, panic came up into Hugh’s throat. Only his pride kept him from crying out, demanding to know where they were taking him. Pride and the fear. He’d never known fear before, he’d only thought that he had. There were no handles on the rear doors.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“It was the right thing to do and the wrong way to handle it.”
― Timothy Janovsky, You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince