Summer Islanders Quotes & Sayings

Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life. — George R R Martin

the silence of the void, as if the world stopped breathing and — Rick Yancey

If psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of constructing meaning in a postreligious world, what does it mean that I'm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday? — David Rakoff

You're a thousand small wonders, Kylie, love, adding up to one grand miracle. — Dorien Kelly

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet. — Saadi

At the beginning of the semester, when you asked who I loved the most, an image of my mother popped in my head. When you asked me who I loved the most for the second time, it wasn't an image of my mother. Instead, it was replaced by an image of a strawberry blonde with big, blue eyes.
It took me a long time to figure out the exact moment I fell in love with her, partly because I denied that I did until it was too late.
I fucked up so badly and did so many things wrong, to the point of no return, so I let her go. The selfless part inside of me wants to say I did the right thing, and the selfish part of me thinks I made the biggest mistake of my life. I guess the selfless side won out because, every time I look at her and see what I did, I realize I don't deserve her.
I was never supposed to fall in love with her, but that was the best mistake of my life. I will always love her; I have ever since I purposely bumped into her in the hallway. — Sarah Brianne

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency. — Lysander Spooner

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. — P. J. O'Rourke

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet! — Antonin Scalia

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. — James Collins

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar

When my mom pulled the trigger my dad had a full house, three fives and a pair of ducks. He was all in. The paper says although dead, he ended up winning seven grand. I once heard someone on tv say we die as we lived. That sounds about right. — David Ebershoff

Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it."
"They call them puff fish, Grandmother."
"Of course they do. Summer Islanders have no imagination. — George R R Martin

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music. — Ryan Adams

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000. — Dan Quayle

Once your life is clutter-free, literally and metaphorically, you will feel less stressed and your life will have more room for happiness. — Jamie Becker