Ukmar Square Quotes & Sayings

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials. — Chen Guangbiao

Kenji pulls up next to me. Nods at Warner. "So this gets you going, huh?"
I'm mortified.
Kenji barks out a laugh.
"I've never seen him in sweatpants before." I try to sound normal. "I've never even seen him in shorts."
Kenji raises an eyebrow at me. "I bet you've seen him in less."
I want to die. — Tahereh Mafi

I've always been a conservative first. — Steve Scalise

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I'm not your gilded prince with the gilded chairs, Letty," Geoff said simply. "I couldn't be if I tried."
"I wouldn't want you to be." Letty's voice felt rusty.
"I'm not particularly bold or dashing or heroic. I'm happier at my desk than in a black cloak. And I've never entirely mastered all the steps of the quadrille." He looked soberly down at her. "But what I am is yours, if you'll still have me. — Lauren Willig

The part of me that actually cares about being a decent person promptly punched my inner researcher in the jaw and stuffed her in a closet at the back of my head, to be retrieved later. — Seanan McGuire

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison. — Neal Stephenson

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse. — Ellen G. White

If our destiny is nothing more than a prediction of a collision, an intersection between two paths, then we don't have a destiny at all. — Claudia Gray