Duboys Quotes & Sayings

My tears fall backward, burning as they singe their way down my throat. — Tahereh Mafi

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell. — Publilius Syrus

College was a bubble that kept the rest of the world at bay. There was an abundance of free time, friends who lived either with you or right next door, and an overwhelming sense of optimism about the future, even if you had no idea as to the specifics of what that might mean. In college, everyone accepted the fact that their lives would turn out exactly as planned, buoying them from one good memory to the next in a cascade of carefree three-day weekends. — Nicholas Sparks

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. — Oscar Wilde

I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing. — Brigid Brannagh

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? — Sara Sheridan

Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way. — Emma Forrest

The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles ... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end? — Emil Cioran

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more. — T. Boone Pickens