Shmelf Quotes & Sayings

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. — Paul Auster

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. — Ice Cube

There are no take-backs - just as in life. You must think before you move. — Susan Polgar

I'm going to paste it up on the wall so my dickhead uncle sees it the moment he walks in and stops going on about me losing it. — Melina Marchetta

To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's reckless to love and trust another person. It's clearly foolhardy.

I'd like it very much if the many daredevils who go ahead anyway, enjoyed this book. — Kaori Ekuni

In bed, I steal moments of tenderness when sex has finally exhausted me to the point where I'm too bone weary to fret anymore about the enormous capacity for evil that's taken up squatter's rights inside me. I touch him, put all those things I don't say into my hands as I trace the red and black tattoos on his skin, the sharp planes and hollows of his face, bury my hands in his dark hair. He watches me in silence when I do, eyes dark, unfathomable.
I sometimes wake up to find he's pulled me close to him and is holding me, spooned into my back with his face in my hair, and those hands that don't speak like mine don't speak move over my skin and tell me I'm cherished, honored, seen. — Karen Marie Moning

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it. — Charles Bukowski

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring ! — Cameron Jace