Monjott Quotes & Sayings

My heart broke open and history fell in. — Salman Rushdie

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. — Marcelene Cox

His hair was longer now, brushing the tops of his shoulders, and the weight of it made it hang straight and shiny. He'd lost more weight and gotten kind of tan. He looked about five years older.
And then there was me, dressed as sushi. — Jennifer Castle

Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God. — Robert Frost

Family didn't give up. Family kept going — Lexi Blake

Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn't miss an appointment, it never has. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' " finished Mara. — Raymond E. Feist

It would have served me right if I'd had a cerebral aneurysm on the spot. Instead, I forgot all about my foot
until we shoved the flat onto the stage. I think we broke my ankle. This is bullshit. I have finals to worry about. — Steve Kluger

As a girl-twelve, thirteen years old-I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me. — Elena Ferrante

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. — Simon Wiesenthal