Latest Quotes

“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”

— Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

“Over at the lake and down by the river You can feel it start to rise Wanna jump in my car, go wherever you are ‘Cause I need you by my side It’s gonna be a long, hot summer, we should be together With your feet up on the dashboard now Singing along with the radio, it’s such a beautiful sound And whe…”

— Keith Urban, Long Hot Summer

“Summertime, and the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin' So hush little baby, Don't you cry”

— Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”

— James Joyce, Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)

“There's a wild, wild whisper Blowin' in the wind Callin' out my name like a long lost friend Oh I miss those days as the years go by Oh nothing's sweeter than summertime And American honey”

— Lady Antebellum, American Honey

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

— PG Wodehouse, The Luck of The Bodkins

“You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.”

— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)

“There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair.”

— Veronica Roth, Divergent Series Four-Book Paperback Box Set: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, Four

“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.”

— JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 2)

“Ironically, since the attacks, the sunsets have been glorious.”

— Susan Ee, Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days)

“The screw through Cinder’s ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle.”

— Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.”

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Where's Papa going with that axe?' said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”

— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

— Roald Dahl, Matilda

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”

— William Goldman, The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“If you're going to read this, don't bother.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘As pretty as an airport.”

— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”

— John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there’s either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.”

— Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel