Pakkot Quotes & Sayings

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself. — Annie Dillard

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day ... The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end. — Anthony Minghella

you can really see it, with an overdose, you can watch the light dripping out of someone's eyes. — Ben H. Winters

Again I was lying. That's when he looked down — Steve Osborne

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing
light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light. — Jodi Picoult

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. — Charles Lamb

Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality. — Katherine Applegate

They chose the olive"
"They must really like olives"
"Forget it"
"Now if she invented pizza that i can understand"
-Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif — Rick Riordan

A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It's messy, like a beloved, balky child. — Kay Kenyon

Funny how certain things stay with you. — Lauren Oliver

Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work. — Julia Cameron

If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are! — Jan Porter

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind — Robert Hunter

The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it. — Fred Barnes