198th Personnel Quotes & Sayings

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian — Daniel Levin Becker

He picked up the water bottle, drank deeply from it. I watched the ripples in his throat as the water went down. I wished I were the water, going into him, to be with him, one with him. I never envied water so much before. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She'd fallen into my arms and stolen every beat of my heart — Aria Cole

When he wakes up," Daniel murmured gently, "I'm going to punch him in the throat. — Stephenie Meyer

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about. — James Clavell

You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so ... you must protect what you must protect. — CLAMP

Try to be the best even if you can't be the best, you will be among the betters. — Debasish Mridha

His beauty was his true vocation — Jack Fritscher

But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh. — Tim Dorsey

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. — John Henry Mackay