Subtweeting Quotes & Sayings

But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but for now, it was more the gesture itself. He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses. — Jennifer E. Smith

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion. — Soren Kierkegaard

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line. — Robin McKinley

I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy? — Michael Davis

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death. — Sun Tzu

Who's he kidding? He's no gentleman. He has my panties — E.L. James

I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and I Says.
No more the Anglicized Percy, I.
I am now Taimur Hind. — Kamila Shamsie

Thus those who are employed in poisoning souls, generally make use of some important and beneficial truth, as a vehicle by which they convey their malignant drug into the minds of the unwary! — John Newton

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride
if responsibility robs him of his manhood. — Stephen King