Teen Thriller Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years. — Christopher Tin

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don't really expect any credit for going in that direction. It's the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don't see that as so patently obvious as it should be? — Amartya Sen

My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown where shiny cars wink at you in the sunlight. If a car winks at you in this area it's being driven by a person you would be best to avoid.
My side of downtown is crumbling and skirted by chain link fences.
Rocky Evans — Gwenn Wright

All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father's home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out
behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in. — Gwenn Wright

Oh, I'm following President Obama on Twitter. I like my black history in 140 characters or less. — Baratunde R. Thurston

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. — Gloria Steinem

The developmental psychologist Paul Bloom has shown that our minds were designed for dualism - we think that minds and bodies are different but equally real sorts of things - and so we readily believe that we have immortal souls housed in our temporary bodies. — Jonathan Haidt

He had never actually said what he hunted, only that he enjoyed it. — Kayla Krantz

The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult. — Cortney S. Warren

I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers. — Shirley Chisholm

I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one. — Jeffrey Westhoff

He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster. — Kayla Krantz

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. — Charles Spurgeon

Actions have consequences. Kids today don't think about that. It's like, 'Hey, wouldn't this be awesome?!' Consequences? What are those? — Theodore Jerome Cohen

One honorable young man can make all the difference ... — Robert L. Beck

Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station. — R.W. Rivers

Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free. — Kayla Krantz

Sometimes life isn't worth the pain. i'm going for a swim. goodbye, my love. — Jake Vander Ark

I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details. — E.L. Sayers

Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Seconds seem like a life time when the life you lived is slowly drained out of you by those who care not what you felt, hoped, or dreamed. When the darkness comes it is all consuming, there is no light and there is no pain. It is the never ending loss of hope that now consumes me as I die in his arms. — Cassandra Giovanni

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing 'Sleep sweet sleep'. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack — Kim Cormack

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways ... It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not. — Gordon Willis

Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed. — Howard Odentz

How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here's your answer! Here's what you need to know! It's an incredible thing to have that kind of power. To know that your words could change everything. — Jennifer Wolf Kam

It takes a lot of doing to die. — Betty Smith

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Romans 12:19
King James Version

What most people don't seem to understand is that sometimes, He subcontracts the work!

Detective-Investigator Louis Martelli,
NYPD — Theodore Jerome Cohen

She's a princess and you're a jock," he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes. — Karen M. McManus