The 100 Grounders Quotes & Sayings

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient. — Jesse Schell

Once upon a time, the great big world outside Bridgeton had seemed like Xanadu - miles of golden road lined with smiling people, waiting to usher me through hundreds of open doors. There was nothing out there but bright light and possibilities. There were big dreams of other places, other people, even other boys.
There had even, for two hours in April, been somebody else.
He was a glimpse of the future, where I would live and breath and love far, far away from this place. A future where behind a closed door, on Saturday mornings, a boy I hadn't met yet would wrap an arm around my waist and exhale damp heat into the curve of my neck. Where we would keep our eyes closed, pull the covers closer, burrow down and deeper to escape the nine-o'clock sunshine, and the sound of heavy breath echoing along the rusted steel confines of a pickup truck would be nothing but a memory. — Kat Rosenfield

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. — Delphine De Girardin

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. — Meg Rosoff

What good are the words? — Markus Zusak

We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.'
That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood.
And I slept. — Charlaine Harris

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. — Katherine Mansfield

A bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside these instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place himself in their care. He said that to follow a false map was to invite disaster. He gestured at the sketching in the dirt. As if to invite them to behold its futility. The second man on the bench nodded his agreement in this and said that the map in question was a folly and that the dogs in the street would piss upon it. — Cormac McCarthy

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human. — Hugo Grotius

How could an article about computers begin with such an idiotic opening line: Where is Slovenia? — Paulo Coelho

Lenz tells Green how once he was at a Halloween party where a hydrocephalic woman wore a necklace made of dead gulls. — David Foster Wallace

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door. — Paul McCartney