Schlappen Quotes & Sayings

I give people credit for buying into consumerism — John Green

Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming. — Julian Fellowes

Most people don't have a clue what our volunteers really do. — George Devault

What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved them. Here was a sign that she wasn't alone. Here was an articulation of what she had been so far mutely feeling. In bed on a Friday night, wearing sweatpants, her hair tied back, her glasses smudged, and eating peanut butter from the jar, Madeleine was in a state of extreme solitude. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked. — China Mieville

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. — Chuck Palahniuk

The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not. — Eric Rucker Eddison