Christophoros Quotes & Sayings

I want you," he said simply. "Just you. Nothing else. Only ever you," he breathed out in pain, closing his eyes. "Fuck, Emilia. You." I — L.J. Shen

The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe. — Simon Bolivar

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Dr. Luce introduced the concept of "periphescence". The word itself means nothing; Luce made it up to avoid any etymological associations. The state of periphescence, however, is well known. It denotes the first fever of human pair bonding. It causes giddiness, elation, a tickling on the chest wall, the urge to climb a balcony on the rope of the beloved's hair. Periphescence denotes the inital drugged and happy bedtime where you sniff your lover like a scented poppy for hours running. (It lasts, Luce explained, up to two years
tops.) — Jeffrey Eugenides

I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000. — Justin Zackham

In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction. — Marie Lu

I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all. — David Fincher

I guess I was sad that love was not real? Or not all that real, anyway? I guess I was sad that love could feel so real and the next minute be gone, and all because of something Abnesti was doing. — George Saunders

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing. — Janet Fitch

Many Americans and Western Europeans proudly trumpet the diversity of cosmopolises like London and New York without realizing that cosmopolitanism does not mean people of different skin colors all sitting around over wine at a bistro table complaining about organized religion. It means people who hold profoundly different, even mutually exclusive, beliefs and cultural norms functioning in a shared space based on toleration of disagreement. — Jonathan A.C. Brown

I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money. — Roseanne Barr

[W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle. — Louise Seaman Bechtel

I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I watch reruns of 'Futurama,' which is a cartoon and not based in the real world at all. — Matthew Moy

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste. — Seymour Stein

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me. — Joseph Pisani