Latest Quotes

“It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The stranger didn't shatter Adam's world all at once.”

— Harlan Coben, The Stranger

“I'm drowning.”

— A.J. Banner, The Good Neighbor

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“They signed a pledge saying they will abide, saying they will back the candidate of the party. They broke their word. In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful.”

— Donald Trump, Trump Says GOP Opponents Should Support Him Or Be Banned From Office

“It’s an amazing thing when you think—you know, where they can, out of nowhere, out of the wind, they make energy.”

— Donald Trump, Campaign Reeling, Donald Trump Pivots To, Uhh...Scotland? Okay, Man.

“Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.”

— Ernest Cline, Ready Player One: A Novel

“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.”

— Donald Trump, 29 of the most outrageous Donald Trump quotes

“I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn't good at it, I stopped giving hand jobs because I was great at it.”

— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

“Unless the United States builds a wall, Mexicans will swarm across the border, enroll in law school en masse, and eventually become biased judges”

— Donald Trump, Trump: Mexicans Swarming Across Border, Enrolling in Law School, and Becoming Biased Judges - The New Yorker

“Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.”

— Stephen King, The Shining

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity.”

— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics)

“I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black dead thing. bring him & we will mourn until we forget what we are mourning & isn’t that what being black is about?”

— Danez Smith, not an elegy for Mike Brown

“The Swede: during the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athl…”

— Philip Roth, American Pastoral

“Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt.”

— David Wong, John Dies at the End

“I demand a war to bring the dead boy back no matter what his name is this time.”

— Danez Smith, not an elegy for Mike Brown

“If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”

— Saul Bellow, Herzog (Penguin Classics)

“It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.”

— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad