Reading! Quotes

I write because he needs to know.

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game, A game so wickedly played, I am at your command in your wicked games.

Everybody loves to hate a sinner

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

The Black Pit of Despair is temporarily closed for renovations. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

Every reading is a misreading.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.

This moment is history.

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care.

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

I love the fashion which is out of fashion.

If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.

I can barely read my hand written notes, typed.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can't make sense of someone who's so brand new to you.

Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at ‘our favorite spot, ’ and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

Longevity is highly over rated.

There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball.

The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work.

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

Facebook is that successful guy you’re supposed to want to date, but you can’t keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

You’re nothing more than poison in my veins.

Look up, always. Look back, never.

Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.

A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.

Drink up my honey eyes, Kiss them shut every night, And be my 'one' all my life.