Towelie Character Quotes & Sayings

No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

When the three of us, the three men named Alex, gathered in Father's house that night to converse the journey, Grandfather said, I do not want to do it. I am retarded, and I did not become a retarded person in order to have to perform shit such as this. I am done with it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

People don't break up because someone's family is a little ... messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married. — Laura Dave

She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time actually seemed to hurt her, and people helped her get through it. [..] Sometimes it seemed to Nathan that her life was just that, a feat of held breath, just another ten seconds, just another five, and then death would flood her lungs like water, a string of glass bubbles to the surface and then nothing. She was scared in a way that he could understand. The kind of fear that sends you running across a six-lane highway or jumping into rapids. She was someone who ran towards her fear, screaming. Who tried to frighten it. Who, in another period of history, would have been worshipped as a saint or burned as a witch. — Rupert Thomson

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel. — Julian Baggini

You know, L, I'm feeling overwhelmed by your kindness and charm."
"I try to leash the potency of the charm but it's too exhaustin'. — Samantha Young