Caverns In California Quotes & Sayings

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals
then what wasn't? — Annie Dillard

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself. — Gretchen Rubin

You think I'm wasting my time, " I accuse his flawless profile. "You think Sammy's dead."
"How could I know that, Cassie?"
"I'm not saying you know that. I'm saying you THINK that."
"Does it matter what I think?"
"No, so shut up."
"I wasn't saying anything. YOU said
"
"Don't ... say ... anything."
"I'm not."
"You just did."
"I'll stop."
"But you're not. You say you will, then you just keep going."
He starts to say something, then shuts his mouth so hard, I hear his teeth click. — Rick Yancey

They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge. — Kate Atkinson

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental. — Ashwin Sanghi

The present is that elusive moment between what no longer exists and what has not yet happened. These notions that we take as "reality" are pure intellectual fabrications that do not involve an independent reality, existent in itself. According — Dalai Lama XIV

So if this were a normal book about a girl with leukemia, I would probably talk a shitload about all the meaningful things Rachel had to say as she got sicker and sicker, and also probably we would fall in love and have some incredibly fulfilling romantic thing and she would die in my arms. But I don't feel like lying to you. She didn't have meaningful things to say, and we definitely didn't fall in love. She seemed less pissed with me after my stupid outburst, but she basically just went from irritable to quiet. — Jesse Andrews

ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.

Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat's *ss? H*lls no. — Cambria Hebert

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge. — George Steiner

My poor boat poked along the waterway with the blinding speed of a manatee. — Pat Conroy

We were children then. We are allowed to make mistakes, to figure out who we wish to be. — Sarah J. Maas

God never wrote a good play in his life. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.