Niceforo Roque Quotes & Sayings

She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a deluxe inhibition bypass. — Andrew Barrett

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows. — Rodman Philbrick

I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything. — James Tipton

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process. — Robin Winks

Society is going to judge you no matter what you do. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

This novel is for everyone who has ever studied any monstrosity of history, with the serene satisfaction of being horrified while knowing exactly what was going to happen, rather like studying a dragon anatomized upon a table, and then turning around to find the dragon's present-day relations standing close by, alive and ready to bite. — Jo Walton

Faithful are the wounds of a friend — Gina Holmes

I could fall in love with you so easily. I'm halfway there already. You're so perfect in my memory, and you're perfect now. It's like I dreamed you into being. Of all the boys, you're the one I would pick. — Jenny Han

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family. — Julia Alvarez

The second rat, of course, may have been the first rat farther uptown, in which case I am either being followed or the rat keeps the same rounds and hours I do. I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time. Two rats, then. — Renata Adler

He is a monster, I said. Maybe I m a monster to pity him — Rosamund Hodge

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. — Thomas A. Edison