Karstens Hardware Quotes & Sayings

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him. — W. Somerset Maugham

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey
it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done. — Jonathan Carroll

I am writing this book for people like me -- the person I was ten years ago. — Michelle Alexander

The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something. — Jeannette Walls

That's the recoil of the same urge. The anarchist, the criminal, the murderer, he is only the extreme lover acting on the recoil. But it is love: only in recoil. It flies back, the love-urge, and becomes a horror. — D.H. Lawrence

Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible. — Gustave Courbet

They're sensational! — Harry Styles

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide. — Tahir Shah

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. — Julian Barnes