Nimblerod Quotes & Sayings

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree. — Junot Diaz

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

We wanted something in which to believe, as many people on Earth once believed in demons, or in sunken lost continents, in a face on Mars, crop circles, visitations from being on other planets, or God, Buddha, Christ, Allah, and so on. The fact that all of the above were total nonsense didn't change the desire to believe that there was Something Else out there, something that could make sense of chaotic lives and events. — Stephen Leigh

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. — Chuck Palahniuk

This water is more delicious than the soft kisses from the daubed lips of a dozen nubile maidens — Colleen Houck

His mouth closes in on mine, and that single second before our lips meet spins out for eternity. And it makes graphs and flow-charts and PowerPoints underlining all the reasons we should absolutely not be doing this.
But we are.
We so completely are.
Winch walks me back to the bed and lies me down, his entire body pressed long and perfectly weighted over mine. He kisses me with a gentle, coaxing pressure for a few minutes, like he's taking my temperature, gauging my heart rate, and determining if I'm in.
I'm all in. — Liz Reinhardt

I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push. People talk about Three Days of the Condor as being anti-government but the last statement in that movie is the CIA guy saying to Robert Redford, "Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!" — Sydney Pollack

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you. — Etgar Keret

Alaska pulling the controller up and to the right, as if that would help her escape certain death. I had the same bad habit. — John Green

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. — Iris Murdoch

Love is a camouflage of beauty. You feel free in love, but in truth, you're trapped. — Samreen Ahsan