Destroying Avalon Novel Quotes & Sayings

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. — Homer Simpson

Widmerpool's face assumed a dramatic expression that made him look rather like a large fish moving swiftly through opaque water to devour a smaller one. — Anthony Powell

There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. — Louis Armstrong

You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that. — J. Cornell Michel

Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke

And Phoebe saw, with a dreadful clarity, that in the end she'd failed to interest her mother enough, failed to hold her attention. Some flaw within herself made her extraneous to everyone. She stopped on a corner overwhelmed by a terrible pain. It was her fault, her own fault. She'd done everything wrong.
Wait, she thought, but wait - walking again, faster now - maybe she'd misunderstood, maybe the deal with her mother had been that they each would live a secret life and not tell the other, but Phoebe hadn't realized - she'd failed to live the secret life and now her life was only this, a hundred empty years stretched uselessly behind her. — Jennifer Egan