Schwickert Quotes & Sayings

So you weren't in college."
"I wasn't, no." She takes another sip. "Your father was though. He was visiting for spring break. I mugged him."
"You what?"
"You have to understand I didn't make very much money, even with two jobs. It hardly even paid for my food. I couldn't fish, because-"
"You didn't want anyone to sense you in the water." Otherwise, she could have been pretty self-sufficient.
She nods. "So one day I see this group of cocky college students, spending money left and right. Pulling wads of cash out of their pockets to pay for small purchases, like ice cream." She rolls her eyes. "They were flashing it. They wanted people to know they were rich."
"Doesn't mean they wanted people to mug them," I mutter. — Anna Banks

You will never finish your novels if you don't take it one word at a time — Terrence LeRoy Baker

If you can't convince you're normal, convince they're weird too. — Sarvesh Jain

What color is time? Where do the thoughts of the dead go? How is it diseases spread but miracles don't? Have you ever thought of that? — Ruth Downie

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. — Chris Matakas

Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds. — Antonia Perdu

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce

I love country music. — Eric Close

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind. — Jodi Picoult

Do you mean the 'you're wearing my underwear' face?" he asks, moving to the second button and swishing his head back and forth as he does. — Kim Karr

I've only had a handful of moments like that in my life - where I could see how thin the veil was between my happy, intact world and its complete destruction. How few steps there were between the mundane and the unthinkable. You can see why people stay quiet. Can you see, yet, why I speak up? Wouldn't — Lindy West

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty. — Romesh Gunesekera

Want to guarantee nasty conflicts? Take a word with multiple, fuzzy, definitions, force people to strike an agreement on it, attach large amounts of money to it, and then watch them fight about it a year or two later. — Michael T. Nygard

Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

Charlotte had tried to read his work. It seemed only polite, after all, given that they were neighbors. But after a while, she'd simply had to give up. 'Love' always rhymed with 'dove,' (Where, she wondered, did one locate that many doves in Derbyshire?) and 'you' rhymed so often with 'dew,' that Charlotte had wanted to grab Rupert by the shoulders and yell, 'Few, hue, new, woo, Waterloo!' Good gracious, even 'moo' would have been preferable. Rupert's poetry could surely have been improved by a cow or two.
Saying moo on cue at Waterloo. — Julia Quinn