Latest Quotes

“What’s it going to be then, eh?”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Harry locked his mother in the closet.”

— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream: A Novel

“Forks.”

— Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel

“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.”

— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)

“They were abandoning him.”

— Michael Punke, The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge

“I’m pretty much fucked.”

— Andy Weir, The Martian

“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dinning-car window with a delight almost physical.”

— Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

“There was a mistake made on the day I was born, when I come to think of it.”

— William Boyd, Sweet Caress

“Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.”

— Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“This is a true story but I can’t believe it’s really happening.”

— Martin Amis, London Fields

“Every moment in business happens only once.”

— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“And it’s a story that might bore you but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or, actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk tha…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.”

— Stephen King, The Shining

“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“Recall the kind of feeling you have when someone praises you, when you are approved, accepted, applauded.”

— Anthony De Mello, The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello (Image Pocket Classics)

“Laurie Garvey hadn't been raised to believe in the Rapture.”

— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“So you’re all set for money, then?”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

“As I lay here tonight I keep thinking How long ago for you I was crazy And this night moves right along my mind and much my situation, And I'm feeling mighty cold and unhappy. And the songs I hear, they don't seem like they're changing And my time spent leaving far exceeds the times that I stayed An…”

— Brenda Weiler, Swimming

“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it. Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music…”

— Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna