1886 Dollar Quotes & Sayings

I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn't finished eating. — Colleen Hoover

He had never fainted in his life, and while he knew it was this whole life-mate, mind-blowing-sex business, it was still damned demoralizing to be fainting like a breathless virgin at the end of every encounter. — Lynsay Sands

I wanted to prepare for a life of sudden transformations, of enemies singing at you across the stage dressed in the costume of a lover. — Alexander Chee

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might. — Patti Page

He was wrong in thinking that by saying 'Nnphnn!' Sunny had been complaining about getting undressed in front of her siblings. Sunny's oversized suit had muffled the word she was really saying, and it was a word that still haunts me in my dreams as I toss and turn each night, images of Beatrice and her legacy filling my weary, grieving brain no matter where in the world I travel and no matter what important evidence I discover. — Lemony Snicket

Thank God I found you. I'd been doing some praying so maybe it works sometimes. — Lissa Evans

Circumlocution," said Mr. Croup to Mr. Vandemar. "It's a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity. — Neil Gaiman

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow

Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on my own. Surely, I thought, I must be the saddest child in the world; that there must be something innately horrid about me to cause my father to cast me off so heartlessly. I believed that if I could discover what it was, there might be a chance of putting things right, of somehow making it up to him. — Alan Bradley