Abridger Quotes & Sayings

He was a flame and she'd gotten burned, and the pain was terrible, yet it didn't make the fire any less alluring. — Jennifer Donnelly

What happened was that everyone in Ireland had the idea that somewhere in Ireland there was a little wise old man who was in charge of the money, and this was the first time they'd ever seen this little man," says McCarthy. "And then they saw him and said, Who the fuck was that??? Is that the fucking guy who is in charge of the money??? That's when everyone panicked. — Michael Lewis

Even death is going to die! — Sally Lloyd-Jones

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(..) and they would imprint upon each other's lips such a long and languishing kiss, that a little straw cigar might have been smoked during the time it lasted. — Nikolai Gogol

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer
a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us. — Gary Lutz

Christ," he muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. "The first time I traveled, I attacked an automobile with an umbrella and nearly pissed myself in terror. So when I say you are taking this well, I hope you'll believe me. — Alexandra Bracken

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards used to claim that there are "two Americas," the rich and the poor. If Democrats have their way, there will be two Latin Americas, both of them poor. You're living in one of them right now. — Ann Coulter