Bittersteel Quotes & Sayings

How is it that with everything that's happened in my life, this girl is going to be the thing that undoes me? — Katja Millay

The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it for granted that when we stick a piece of plastic in a wall, cash will come out; that when we give the same plastic to a stranger, he will rent us a car, and the next month, VISA will have the accounting correct to the penny. By contrast, 'experts' in government can't even count the vote accurately. — John Stossel

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie? — Clint Eastwood

I finished my career the way I wanted to. — Michael Phelps

We are each responsible for all of our experiences. — Louise L. Hay

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. — John Ruskin

It was another of the Great Bastards: Ser Aegor Rivers, called Bittersteel. Perhaps it was his Bracken blood that made Aegor so choleric and so quick to take offense. Perhaps it was the ignominious fall of the — George R R Martin

There were car gods there: a powerful, serious-faced contingent, with blood on their black gloves and on their chrome teeth: recipients of human sacrifice on a scale undreamed-of since the Aztecs. — Neil Gaiman

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare? — Jessica Sorensen

When would you like to go out with me so we can talk about it?" A grin flirts with his lips.
He's got her cornered.
And he knows it.
Janie chuckles, defeated. "You are such a bastard."
"When," he demands. "I promise, all my heart, I'll be your house elf for the rest of my life if I fail to meet you at the appointed date and time." He leans forward. "Promise," he says again. He holds up two fingers.
The bell rings.
They stand up.
She's not answering.
He comes around the table toward her and pushes her gently against the wall. Sinks his lips into hers.
He tastes like spearmint. She can't stop the flipping in her stomach.
He pulls back and touches her cheek, her hair. "When," he whispers. Urgently
She clears her throat and blinks. "A-a-after school works for me," she says. — Lisa McMann

I knew they were cruel. Maybe I felt ... sorry for him." I snort. "Sorry for me? I could've handled those guys." "They smashed the back of your head in with a board from my house. — Kendare Blake

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era. — Ivan Allen

She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out. — Henry Miller

Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart! — Djuna Barnes

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm. — George Leonard