Accordion Closet Quotes & Sayings

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning. — Rod Serling

My thoughts war. Part of me needs to protect her; part of me wants something else. Something vile. Wrong. — Christine Fonseca

There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons ... — Mark Steyn

How the fuck would I explain that to ER personal? Yeah, my wife doesn't fuck me anymore. So I went in search of my old porn collection, but I guess I had one too many. — Alexia Stark

Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition. — Phyllis Diller

This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world. — John Banville

From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis ... — Junot Diaz

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists. — Frank Herbert

You're different than you used to be. A few months ago you wouldn't have followed me onto this porch." The compliment, if it was that, brought tears to her eyes. "I - I'm sorry for treating you so badly. I'm ashamed now of how I snubbed you - acted afraid of you - " "It's common enough." The admission startled her - made her feel grieved and defensive and tender toward him all at once. She longed to lay a reassuring hand on his sleeve but checked herself. There was no self-pity in his manner, only truth telling, and she sensed he didn't want her sympathy, just her friendship. And her forgiveness. "A half blood belongs to no one, red or white," he said. "You belong to God," she said softly. — Laura Frantz

From a character's mother in THE ROMANCE READER'S GUIDE TO LIFE: "Resentment is the poison you drink yourself hoping it will kill the other fellow. — Sharon Pywell

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken — Ian McEwan

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. — Mathieu Kerekou

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. — William Manchester

Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Marshall McLuhan

There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy. — Michael Josephson