Nacific Toner Quotes & Sayings

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books. — Tess Gerritsen

I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government. — Rachel Notley

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions. — Frederick Lenz

I expect you are wondering why I had not considered the possibility of unemployment. The reason being that my mind had a very different recollection of what unemployed men looked like. The jobless man I remembered from the past went out onto the street with a placard around his neck that read "Looking for any type of work". When he'd had enough of drifting fruitlessly around in this manner, he would remove the placard, grab a red flag handed to him by a loitering Bolshevist, and return to the street. — Timur Vermes

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. — Jane Austen

What do the stars believe in, Zainab? Where do the dead horses go, what do the birds worship, and what do the rivers live for? — Rawi Hage

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. — Rachel Kushner

Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M — Isaac Marion

Having clients still seemed a little unnatural, though; it made Jules feel that she was a businessperson, someone in, say, consulting, that vague field that she'd never really understood, though over the years through Ethan and Ash, she and Dennis had met people who made their livings this way. No one wanted to be a patient anymore; everyone wanted to be a client. More to the point, everyone wanted to be a consultant. — Meg Wolitzer

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer

Because, in the end, without love all our effort is wasted, all we do is in vain. — Rick Yancey

Despite a highly uneven record in stabilizing other regions, there is still a strong conviction that Western involvement is needed to prevent a complete breakdown of order elsewhere. Non-Western — Oliver Stuenkel

Why did we always say we were going to shoot emails?"
"I don't know. I've wondered that too."
"Why couldn't we just say we were going to send them? We were just pressing a button, were we not?"
"Not even a real button. A picture of a button on a screen."
"Yes," Garrett said, "that's exactly what I'm talking about."
"There was not, in fact, an email gun. Although that would've been nice. I would've preferred that. — Emily St. John Mandel

Too bad. I was going to miss her when I killed her. — Priya Kanaparti

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English. — Vikram Seth