Latest Quotes

“Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.”

— Ha Jin, Waiting: A Novel

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the 19th time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”

— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”

— Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“A white Pomeranian named Fluffy flew out of the a fifth-floor window in Panna, which was a grand-new building with the painter’s scaffolding still around it. Fluffy screamed.”

— Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games: A Novel (P.S.)

“It wasn’t until I had become engaged to Miss Piano that I began avoiding her.”

— Peter De Vries, Into Your Tent I'll Creep

“If this typewriter can’t do it, then f*** it, it can’t be done.”

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“They say the world is flat and supported on the back of four elephants who themselves stand on the back of a giant turtle.”

— Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“For the better part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple–I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”

— Janet Evanovich, Seven Up

“As a boy, I wanted to be a train.”

— Max Barry, Machine Man (Vintage Contemporaries)

“How five crows managed to lift a twenty-pound baby boy into the air was beyond Prue, but that was certainly the least of her worries.”

— Colin Meloy, Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I

“Balloon Tying For Christ was the cheapest balloon manual I could find.”

— Monica Drake, Clown Girl: A Novel

“He sat at his desk, wearily watching the children file out of the room, reflecting that, this term at least, it was reasonable to assume that none of the girls was pregnant.”

— Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright (Text Classics)

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

— Iain Banks, The Crow Road

“In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Nick Naylor had been called many things since becoming the chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, but until now no one had actually compared him to Satan.”

— Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking: A Novel

“I don’t know how other men feel about their wives walking out on them, but I helped mine pack.”

— Bill Manville, Breaking Up

“We value API stability because at Facebook we have more than 20 thousand components using React. This means that we are reluctant to change public APIs or behavior because teams depend on it both externally and internally.”

— Facebook React Team, Design Principles | React

“Components written by different people should work well together. It is important to us that you can add functionality to a component without causing rippling changes throughout the codebase.”

— Facebook React Team, Design Principles | React