Bo1 Nikolai Quotes & Sayings

It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback of "Nine Stories" had fallen flat. "Where's the thing?" I said.
"What thing?"
"The mesh. My mesh."
She shrugged. "I tossed it."
"Tossed it? Where? What do you mean?"
In the next moment I was in the kitchen, flipping open the lid of the trash can, only to find it empty. "You mean outside?" I shouted. "In the dumpster?"
When I came thundering back into the room, she still hadn't moved. "Jesus, what were you thinking? That was mine. I wanted that. I wanted to keep it."
Her lips barely moved. "It was dirty. — T.C. Boyle

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie. — Brother Andrew

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score. — Mark Falcoff

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain. — Hilda Doolittle

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick. — Alexandra Bracken

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch

Mischief Managed. — J.K. Rowling

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others. — Doris Lessing

Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises. — Anthony Esolen

I have no issue with Elissa. She's a fantastic stage manager, and we've worked together before. In fact, a million years ago we used to be good friends. Back when I still thought her brother was born of a human mother and not spawned straight from Satan's asshole. — Leisa Rayven

When he felt like a criminal, he reminded himself that a land without law is a land without crime. — Anthony Marra

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special. — Merrill Markoe

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility. — Robert Nozick

Taste and good-nature are universally connected. — William Shenstone