Polinelli Readers Quotes & Sayings

Sitting on the divan, she touched a finger to the bullet wound in his chest. It seemed so small, so incapable of creating the exodus of blood which had drenched his clothes and skin as he lay in the hospital, waiting for her to claim him. Death has been instantaneous, they said, as if there were a relief in that. She did not want death to have been instantaneous; she wanted to have at least held his hand as he lay dying and said goodbye to him in terms other than the, 'Why are you doing again? You'll find nothing. Stay. Oh all right, go,' that had been her farewell to him that morning.

Stay. Stay. Stay. She should have repeated it like a madwoman, banged her head against the wall in a frenzy, hit him and wept. She should have said it just one more time, just a little more forcefully. She should have taken his dear, sweet head in her hands and kissed his eyes and forehead. Stay. — Kamila Shamsie

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!' — Zack Snyder

I'm a bad son of a bitch, I'm a hard son of a bitch, I deserve a frigging medal. — Jackson Spencer Bell

The stories we share are important. They help to understand ourselves and make sense of the world. — Janet Anderson

Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself. — Maggie Stiefvater

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating. — Jaggi Vasudev

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical. — Kristen Ashley

Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind ... — Elizabeth Taylor

How do you not love a place where the faded beads from a parade six years before still hang in the branches of the live oak trees. — Rick Bragg

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. — Gary Bettman

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. — John Perry Barlow