Reviewer Registry Quotes & Sayings

Hope is a gracious expectation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage. — Judd Apatow

There are Four of Us

I have turned aside from everything,
from the whole earthly store.
The spirit and guardian of this place
is an old tree-stump in water.

We are brief guests of the earth, as it were,
and life is a habit we put on.
On paths of air I seem to overhear
two friendly voices, talking in turn.

Did I say two?...There
by the east wall's tangle of raspberry,
is a branch of elder, dark and fresh.
Why! It's a letter from Marina.


November 1962 (in delirium) — Anna Akhmatova

I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default. — Matthew Norman

Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family. — Laura Wiess

It's a strange thing when you spend so much time and energy fearing the worst will happen. Turns out that when it finally occurs, it's pretty much as bad as you thought it would be. In fact, some parts are worse. Then an amazing thing happens. You see clearly for the first time what made the terrible thing so frightening in the first place: You didn't think you'd survive. But you do. — Lane Davis

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really ... motivated by psychological disturbance. — Edie Sedgwick

You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing your tempestuous southerner impersonation. — Hilary Mantel

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — Henry David Thoreau

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours. — E. M. Forster

Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come,
A thief a warrior and a mole.
Though the quest may take its toll,
We'll march until we reach our goal,
— Brian Jacques

Grief is as contagious as a yawn. — Sue Grafton