Derek Shepherd Ferry Boat Quotes & Sayings

Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get. — Iain M. Banks

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. — Gary Shteyngart

You're buried in there so deep it's like I was born with you in my soul. — Kate McCarthy

Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays — Julian Barnes

You're guilty of making the same mistake most people make. You say 'I love you' but what you really mean is 'I want you.' You think it's the same thing, but it's not. You don't fall in love with someone just because they fuck you like there's no tomorrow." Alyssa purposely used his words, "I don't doubt that you wanted me, Sam. That you still do. Because on that really primitive, physical level, yeah, I still want you, too. But that's not love. That's about possessing, about being possessed. It's not real
it can't possibly last. Love is something you give. It's not about taking, or possessing. — Suzanne Brockmann

As he chooses, he is. — Robert McKee

Follow the truth to life and love what you do ... Be passionate about it to the point where you're willing to do anything for it. — Elie Tahari

my dreams won't matter if I don't persevere to give them substance. — Christine Nolfi

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. — James Agate

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. — Jean Shepherd

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay. — Clare B. Dunkle

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend. — Samuel Johnson

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men. — Kim Young-ha