Switching Lanes Quotes & Sayings

So, as Lymond strode out and stopped, rigid and white by the doorpost, Sybilla set eyes on Francis, the son of her heart; and so Francis Crawford, after four years of unharnessed power, came face to face at last with his mother.

And Kate, falling upon the door and looking up at her self-contained relative by marriage, saw his face torn apart and left, raw as a wound without features; only pain and shock and despair and appalled recognition, all the more terrible for being perfectly voiceless. — Dorothy Dunnett

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations. — Oscar Wilde

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

Okay. I'm ready to move onto something else, like practicing with knives or defense against the dark arts. Cool things."
"Did you just quote Harry Potter? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. — Lisa Guerrero

Do you want me to beat the shit outta him when we get there?" Tate asked, sounding serious and I blinked at him.
"What?"
"I will," Tate stated.
"You ... you'll ... beat the shit out of him?"
"Say the word, babe."
"Would ... wouldn't you get arrested for something like that?" I asked.
"Probably," he answered.
"Then maybe you shouldn't," I decided.
"Your call," he muttered — Kristen Ashley

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. — Robert Plant

This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world. — Jan Smuts

Once upon a time, I had two close friends. Shocking, I know, given my natural charm, but there are those who just don't appreciate my brilliance. — Julie Kagawa

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play. — Carol Ann Duffy

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive. — Dee Dee Myers

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me? — Margaret Atwood

Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers. — Mario Puzo

If only I could understand
The reason for my crying
If only I could stop this fear
Of dreaming that I'm dying. — Jennifer Lynch