Page 9 Quotes

“He sticks out his hand. Billy shakes it. He has shaken with Nick before and never likes it because Nick is a bad guy. Hard not to like him a little, though. Nick is also a pro, and that grin works.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“His name was Johnny Marr, and he looked like—Johnny Marr. Like his given name sounded. Like any Johnny, anywhere, any time.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Rendezvous in Black

“I've always felt like...like I was going to lose something. As beautiful as the world is...”
― Arata Kanoh

“She'd told me that, once-- that she had always felt loss approaching. I was still in middle school, and there was no way I could really have understood what she meant, but those words had sent shivers through my soul.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“He was waiting to be completed, he wasn’t meant to stop the way he was.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Rendezvous in Black

“The subject was not young. She was not an old woman, certainly, but she was equally certainly no longer a girl. Her features were sharply indented with the approaching emphases of alteration. There was an incisiveness to the mouth that was not yet, but would be presently, sharpness. There was a keen appearance to the eyes that heralded the onset of sunken creases and constrictions about them. Not yet, but presently. The groundwork was being laid. There was a curvature to the nose that presently would become a hook. There was a prominence to the chin that presently would become a jutting-out.
She was not beautiful. She could be called attractive, for she was attractive to him, and attractiveness lies in the eyes of the beholder.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Waltz into Darkness

“She was not beautiful. She could be called attractive, for she was attractive to him, and attractiveness lies in the eyes of the beholder.
That early love, that first love (that he had sworn would be the last) was only a shadowy memory now, a half-remembered name from the past. Marguerite; he could say it and it had no meaning now. As dry and flat as a flower pressed for years between the pages of a book. A name from someone else’s past, not even his. For every seven years we change completely, they say, and there is nothing left of what we were.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Waltz into Darkness

“Science is made up of experiments, hypotheses, equations, calculations, and long discussions; but these are only tools, like the instruments of musicians. In the end, what matters in music is the music itself, and what matters in science is the understanding of the world that science provides.

To understand the significance of the discovery that Earth turns around the sun, it is not necessary to follow Copernicus's complicated calculations; to understand the importance of the discovery that all living beings on our planet have the same ancestors, it is not necessary to follow the complex arguments of Darwin's books. Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems / The Order of Time / Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“I sometimes think that I would have had a very different sort of soul, if I had grown up in an ordinary little American house—if our home had not been vast.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick

“He had greeted me warmly, and as I took my place opposite him, I felt the strange sensation that I was awakening from a dream. It was as if the last two years had never happened, that I had never met my beloved Mary, married her and moved to our home in Kensington, purchased with the proceeds of the Agra pearls.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk

“I'll call you up" he promised. It was what you said to people you were never going to see again. He watched the taxi out of sight and began to walk the two blocks to his office.”
― John Rowan Wilson, Means to an End