Teenaged Austrian Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. — Elmore Leonard

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.
Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion. — Toba Beta

It is thus that life at its topmost toss irks and pains. Beyond is ever the unattainable, the lure of the infinite with its infinite ache.
- Oh, life! oh, youth! of, hope! oh, years! Oh pain-winged fancy, beating forth with fears. — Theodore Dreiser

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos. — Joe Mantegna

Her eyes opened then. They were drowsy, slumberous, staring up at him with a hunger that was impossible to miss. "I felt you," she whispered, a smile tilting her moist lips. "Watching me. Should I feel you watching me?" Was she asleep or awake? "Of course." He found the growl building in his throat. "Every time I look at you, baby, I touch you. — Lora Leigh

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy. — Vikas Swarup

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. — Edward Teller

Everyone, later, would find it unbelievable that anyone involved in the ranch would stay in that situation. A situation so obviously bad. But Suzanne had nothing else: she had given her life completely over to Russell, and by then it was like a thing he could hold in his hands, turning it over and over, testing its weight. Suzanne and the other girls had stopped being able to make certain judgments, the unused muscle of their ego growing slack and useless. It had been so long since any of them had occupied a world where right and wrong existed in any real way. Whatever instincts they'd ever had - the weak twinge in the gut, a gnaw of concern - had become inaudible. — Emma Cline

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose. — Heidi Julavits