Emphases Batteries Quotes & Sayings

Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness.
Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.
It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.
Then she fell asleep. — Margaret Atwood

I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him.
Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing. — Joseph O'Neill

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that. — Anchee Min

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe. — Neil Gaiman

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance ... of becoming alcoholics. — Mariska Hargitay

My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics. — Laura Ricketts

I never feel like laughing when things are funny," he said. "I just think to myself, 'Now, that's funny. — Rainbow Rowell