Puckoon Book Quotes & Sayings

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot. — Neal Stephenson

It is often impossible to find out either party's real wishes; with luck, they end by doing something that neither wants, while each feels a glow of self-righteousness and harbours a secret claim to preferential treatment for the unselfishness shown and a secret grudge against the other for the ease with which the sacrifice has been accepted. — C.S. Lewis

Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real. — Shannon Kopp

There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. They remade 'Frankenstein' 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it's not a new phenomenon. — Drew Daywalt

It was a beauty fire, it contained soul, the sides of sunshine mountains, hot streams of smiling fish, warm stockings smelling a bit like toast. I held my hand over the little flame. I had beautiful hands. that one thing I had. I had beautiful hands. — Charles Bukowski

Bertie's my name and flirting's my game, I've an eye for every girl. Don't give a fig! I have a little chat, then give 'em a pat, — Jacqueline Wilson

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent. — Ray Charles

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out. — Jay Griffiths

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess. — Juliana Of The Netherlands

After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it — Spike Milligan

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while? — Jon Stewart

I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea. — Zach McGowan

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny! — Beth Moore

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. — Albert Camus

Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that's better than the one you live in. — Ryan Henry Ward Artist