Gnomy Quotes & Sayings

Life is short and the number of books is appalling. — John Cowper Powys

Lucy shrugged. "You only live once. — Hope Callaghan

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for. — Carol Tavris

Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide brown eyes and the way they nodded, the gnomy caps bobbing. Mother-daughter adventurers. She felt a pang of longing, as she often did in church. Everybody had a mother and a God; those were standard issue. — Barbara Kingsolver

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body. — Lynda Barry

Behind those homes was Mass General, where my father and I had gone together so many times. A phone call had woken us in the early hours one morning, and we had driven down to Boston just as the first light was intruding with harsh orange streaks in the sky. She looked the same as the night before, lying in the bed with her eyes closed, only all the machines were shut off, making the room in which we had spent so many quiet hours all the more silent. Her skin felt chilled when I touched it, as if she had just returned from a brisk walk in winter. I looked up now at the windows of the hospital, but my father turned toward Chitra. — Anonymous

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts — Mary Pope Osborne

Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship. — Sherry Argov

When a creature is so badly constituted (perhaps in nature that being is man) that he cannot love unless he suffers and that he must suffer to learn truth, the life of such a being becomes in the end very exhausting. The happy years are those that are wasted; we must wait for suffering to drive us to work. — Marcel Proust

We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall. — Dalai Lama

When we all work together for love, for unity,
there will be friendship, happiness, and beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired. — Michael Marshall Smith

Sofia," I said, lowering my sandwich from my mouth. The edge of the bread had a red mark on it from my lipstick. "If you don't take that man's jacket, I'm going to set something on fire."
Cole immediately came to life.
Jeremy shook his head slowly. "No man. Not here."
He said it with such lazy, muted humor that it suddenly seemed obvious that they'd been in a band together. That he, anyway, knew Cole in a way those fangirls did not. — Maggie Stiefvater

I could give a shit and piss who this is. She knows who we are. And she ain't got a little trickle goin' down her leg standing toe to toe with the bloodydamn Reaper of Mars, then she's got less brains than a wad of ass lint. — Pierce Brown