1794 Asb Quotes & Sayings

When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly. — Megan Whalen Turner

No one's going to be at our hundred-year reunion. Hell, no one's coming back for the five-year reunion." That was probably true. — Amy Zhang

I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one. — Luis J. Rodriguez

I could feel my limbs disconnecting, floating nearby like driftwood on an oily lake. — Gillian Flynn

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. — Ambrose Bierce

How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet — Robert Browning

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction. — Topher Grace

Are the family lists complete yet?" he asked George.
"Aye, my lord. We've gathered the names of every possible successful runner for the last forty years. Not many men, I'll tell you that. Six at most, and all were thought to be very much dead. Four apparently lost to fire-you remember the blaze that leveled the tavern in '33-one to drowning, and one bloke to, ah, wolves."
Kit raised his brows. "Wolves?"
"That's what his son said. Stirling Jacobs was his name. Liked to hunt at dawn. Liked a challenge. Known to venture out beyond our boundaries. Bones were found, possibly his. That's all."
"How old would this man be now?"
"Let's see...nearing eighty, I'd say."
Kit gazed at him over the mess of china and papers.
"Your instructions were to consider everyone." George shifted in the chair, uneasy. "And I've bloody well considered everyone."

-Kit & George — Shana Abe

Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking — Lewis Carroll

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable. — Paulo Coelho

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record. — Christine Lavin

My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in — Lucille Clifton

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life. — Oswald Chambers

The poorest Christian possesses more than the richest unbeliever. You shall set before me now the pauper who is a believer, and the emperor who has no faith in Christ, and I am convinced that the poor, aged pauper would not exchange her lot thought the imperial purple should be offered her. She would refuse to leave her Savior though the worldwere offered her. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon