Kustermans Reviews Quotes & Sayings

I remember once when I was young, and I was coming back from some place, a movie or something.
I was on the subway and there was a girl sitting across from me and she was wearing this dress that was bottoned queer up right to here, she was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
And I was shy then, so when she would look at me I would look away, then afterwards when I would look back she would look away.
Then I got to where I was gonna get off, and got off, the doors closed, and as the train was pulling away she looked right at me and gave me the most incredible smile. It was awful, I wanted to tear the doors open.
And I went back every night, same time, for two weeks, but she never showed up.
That was 30 years ago and I don't think that theres a day that goes by that I don't think about her, I don't want that to happen again.
Just one dance ?. — Jack Engelhard

She would be free of mundane care, she was a pure will towards right. She had sold herself, but she had a new freedom. She had got rid of her body. She had sold a lower thing, her body, for a higher thing, her freedom from material things. — D.H. Lawrence

Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress - any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society to leapfrog generations, sweeping aside aspects of the past that might otherwise have lingered for decades. And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all. — Amor Towles

The problem of the social reformer, therefore, is not merely to seek means of security, for if these means when found provide no deep satisfaction the security will be thrown away for the glory of adventure. — Bertrand Russell

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction. — Philip Roth

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell. — Jodi Picoult

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government. — Mark Sanford

Mortal life is too short to be worried all the time. — A. Lee Martinez

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious. — Zach Galifianakis

Well, runhh it all to harr," Rafe grumbled. "Why does bein' the nice guys always cause us so much trouble? — Bob Craton

The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death — Charles Dickens

Teach a child how to think, not what to think. — Sidney Sugarman

Let's put the fun back in funeral! — Kresley Cole