Chamblin Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen. — Charles Frazier

It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old. — Maggie Stiefvater

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. — Mason Cooley

It's not the darkness that's terrifying, it's what you might find in it. — J.M. Darhower

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told. — Patty Hearst

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any. — Chloe Thurlow

Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries — Jacob Barnett

Conor's grandma wasn't like other grandmas. He'd met Lily's grandma loads of times, and she was how grandmas were supposed to be: crinkly and smiley, with white hair and the whole lot. She cooked meals where she made three separate eternally boiled vegetable portions for everybody and would giggle in the corner at Christmas with a small glass of sherry and a paper crown on her head.

Conor's grandma wore tailored trouser suits, dyed her hair to keep out the grey, and said things that made no sense at all, like "Sixty is the new fifty" or "Classic cars need the most expensive polish." What did that even mean? She emailed birthday cards, would argue with waiters over wine, and still had a job. Her house was even worse, filled with expensive old things you could never touch, like a clock she wouldn't even let the cleaning lady dust. Which was another thing. What kind of grandma had a cleaning lady? — Patrick Ness

I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds ... and the language is a bit more "colorful". — Colette Freedman