J.M. Green Quotes
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.
Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.
And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life
When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.