Salesses Quotes & Sayings

I sit up, edge over close to my window, and push it open, slipping one leg in, then the next, turning back to Jase. "Come on."
His smile flashes in the gathering dark as his eyebrows lift, but he climbs carefully in as I lock my bedroom door.
"Be still," I tell him. "Now I'm going to learn all about you. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser. — James Patterson

Sometimes our passion is so strong that it makes a fool of us. — Matthew Salesses

A desperate longing stopped her breath, as if he'd jumped already, leaving her behind. "Please," he said. She took his hand and stepped beside him. She should have run away with him as soon as she could. Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier lack of faith. — Matthew Salesses

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. — Francis Marion Crawford

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits

Though it is 2500 feet high, the glacier flowed over its ground as a river flows over a boulder; and since it emerged from the icy sea as from a sepulcher it has been sorely beaten with storms; but from all those deadly, crushing, bitter experiences comes this delicate life and beauty, to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation. — John Muir

Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier act of faith. — Matthew Salesses

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. — John Green

Tell me a legend," he said out of nowhere, and he realised they were making stories of each other, or themselves. — Matthew Salesses

How strange the way we wade into disaster, step after step, not realizing how far we've gone until we're drowning. — Matthew Salesses

Isn't memory a trespasser to the heart? — Matthew Salesses

We have to face the idea that we're completely nobody right now — Ariel Seraphino

Hell or high water, Cupid marches on. In which war, he didn't say. — Matthew Salesses

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt. — Ann B. Davis

Relations between people were conditioned by the fact that one or other of you could be one of them. Everyone suspected everyone else, and the mistrust this bred was the foundation of social existence. Miriam could have been denounced — Anna Funder

ADIAPHORY (ADIA'PHORY) n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference. — Samuel Johnson

She was one of her kind, the most American she would ever be, the last American left in this hundred-year flood. — Matthew Salesses

Prague might be the perfect place, after all: a city that valued anonymity, the desire to be no one and someone at once. — Matthew Salesses

I woke up with an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, part sweet part sour, it took me days to realize this was simply hope. — Jodi Picoult

Limitations only go so far. — Robert M. Hensel

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? — Rand Paul