Kongslien Quotes & Sayings

I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice. — Rachel Sklar

Jenny Marzen made millions of dollars, as opposed to nickels, by writing novels that got seriously reviewed while selling big. Amy had skimmed her first one, a mildly clever thing about a philosophy professor who discovers her husband is cheating on her with one of her grad students, and who, while feigning ignorance of the affair, drives the girl mad with increasingly brutal critiques and research tasks, at one point banishing her to Beirut, first to learn fluent Arabic and then to read Avicenna's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb, housed in the American University. This was, Amy thought, a showoffy detail that hinted at Marzen's impressive erudition but was probably arrived at within five Googling minutes. — Jincy Willett

While the heart beats, hope lingers. — Alison Croggon

How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets? — Lin-Manuel Miranda

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor." — Sam Levenson

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. — James Russell Lowell

Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two. — Tracy Lawrence

I love you so much. I surrender everything I am to you Ava Thompson. — Monica James

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home. — Jayma Mays

You sound like a young person. You are probably all hip to the lingo the kids use these days." "You and I are the same age, Mr. Tiberius. — T.J. Klune