Deisse Quotes & Sayings

Asshat's an asshole," she cooed. "Yes, he is. — Heather Demetrios

The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man — Plato

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion. — Iris Murdoch

He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist. — John Edward Williams

The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead? — Ursula K. Le Guin

My basic point being that stories are at the heart of what explorers and novelists say about strange regions of the world; they also become the method colonized people use to assert their own identity and the existence of their own history. — Edward W. Said

It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night. — Ann Brashares

Bruckner he is my man! — Richard Wagner

I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me. — Uday Kiran

A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want. — Mark Billingham